Al Sharpton pressures Byron Donalds to take back Jim Crow comments in heated interview

Washington Examiner ^ | June 9, 2024 9:41 am | Jenny Goldsberry

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) continued to defend his comments on the marriage rate during the Jim Crow era during a contentious conversation with MSNBC anchor Al Sharpton.

Donalds appeared on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation on Saturday after his event in Philadelphia earlier this week when he discussed how the black marriage rate was higher back then than it is now. His comments have come under fire by many on the Left, who have interpreted the remark to be about how Jim Crow laws benefitted black people at the time despite the fact that they kept them in segregation and prohibited them from voting. Sharpton offered Donalds another opportunity to respond to the backlash.

“My response is that it’s very interesting how people can just lie and mischaracterize what I said,” Donalds said.” I never said or insinuated anything about Jim Crow being better. Just was talking about the marriage rates of black families in America during that time period. It’s an empirical fact.”

“I mean to in any way infer that the families, black families were better in Jim Crow, I mean, I’ve said things that I later said I shouldn’t have said,” Sharpton said. “Can’t you own that even sanitizing Jim Crow, even if that wasn’t your intention, was to say that’s my intention, I’m sorry for using those words?”

“Well, first of all, I never sanitized Jim Crow. I was just talking about the era in which black marriage rates were higher than they were during the great society and every other point in American history,” Donalds responded.

[liberalh8ter]

Daniel's should have responded, “Tawana Brawley” or “white interlopers” or any of the other million things Sharpton has said over his lifetime.

[Fuzz]

The logical fallacy isn’t mine, it was Donalds’. He made the correlation, not me.

Here’s an example you might understand.

Kamala Harris says crime is lower under Biden. Discount whether or not it’s true, this is a hypothetical.

Would you or would you not assume she is making a correlation between lower crime rates and Biden policies?

Same with what Donalds said.

Everything else you’re saying is a distraction from the point I want to address.

[Rockingham]

No, it is Al Sharpton and the Leftist writers at MSNBC who run his cue cards that started talking about Jim Crow. Donalds simply pointed out that in the past, black families were more intact. Strange, is it not, that black resilience and accomplishments in the past are so controversial with and disputed by Leftists?

[Fuzz]

Are you serious here?

https://youtube.com/shorts/hF4aMgWRYyI?si=mWECCqjLPedDG8Zw

He said it. It’s on tape. MSNBC didn’t make it up.

[Rockingham]

No, Donalds did not attribute black family strength to Jim Crow. He simply made the factual point that black families were conservative and strong even under the adversity of segregation — and political adversaries insist on distorting what he said. And yes, black people in the past also tended to vote Republican because the Democrats were the party of the Confederacy, Jim Crow, and lynching.

[Fuzz]

Good god you are thick.

We’ve covered that already. You’re going in circles, moving goalposts, and other rhetorical bs.

It was an own goal, a tone deaf comment, and worthy of criticism.

[Rockingham]

We are not going to find agreement on the facts or on the political issue involved.

[Fledermaus]

Go away punk.

[Fuzz]

Lol.