Tim Scott, a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, seemingly insinuated that welfare is worse than slavery for Black families— a remark that has left social media in an uproar.
The South Carolina senator participated in the Republican primary debate in Simi Valley, California, which aired on Wednesday night on Fox News. Scott made the comments when the candidates were speaking about the country’s education system.
“Black families survived slavery. We survived poll taxes and literacy tests,” Scott said. “We survived discrimination being woven into the laws of our country.”
“What was hard to survive was Johnson’s Great Society, where they decided to put money,” he continued but was interrupted as the crowd applauded. “Where they decided to take the Black father out of the household to get a check in the mail. And now you can measure that in unemployment, in crime, in devastation.”
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Scott refers to policies initiated by former President Lyndon B. Johnson — notably aimed to abolish poverty and inequality, improving education and the environment. One of the significant contributions was solidifying Medicare and Medicaid for those who are poor and elderly.
“If you want to restore hope, you’ve got to restore the family, restore capitalism and put Americans back at work together as one American family,” Scott added. “Our nation continues to go in the right direction. It’s why I can say I have been discriminated against, but America is not a racist country.”
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