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<\/p>\nBRETT: Tim Scott gave the response last night to the president\u2019s address there to the joint session of Congress, and Tim Scott — who happens to be, full disclosure, my senator. He is the senator that represents me along with the other senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham. He took some major incoming from people at the Washington Post who are essentially trying to say that the story of his life and his family\u2019s hardship isn\u2019t as authentic as would be expected.<\/p>\n
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In fact, in The Hill newspaper, “Commentators Blast Washington Post Fact Check on Tim Scott — An extensive Washington Post fact check into the background of Sen. Tim Scott (SC), the only Black Republican in the Senate, has drawn fire from critics on the right and the left, with some saying it deliberately downplays the hardship Scott\u2019s family faced after the Civil War. … The story\u2019s headline stated ‘Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton. There\u2019s more to that tale.'”<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Tim Scott speaking eloquently on why America is not a racist country.<\/p>\n
SCOTT: Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country. It\u2019s backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination, and it\u2019s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.<\/p>\n
BRETT: After the senator made that statement as part of his response to the president\u2019s speech last night — after he made that address — former Obama green jobs czar and CNN commentator Van Jones said this.<\/p>\n
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JONES: He lost a lot of African-Americans by the tens of millions when he said, “America is not a racist nation.” Look, you can say that we\u2019re getting better, you can say that we have — we\u2019ve come a long way. But when you look at these numbers, when you look at these statistics, it is very clear that this country is still struggling with racism.<\/p>\n
BRETT: “Struggling with racism,” but is it “a racist country”? No, Van, it is the Democrats who are losing African-Americans every day, not Tim Scott. You were one for a while. Remember, when you praised President Trump for his criminal justice reform? Let\u2019s go back to last October to hear that.<\/p>\n
JONES: Donald Trump… I get beat up by liberals every time I say it and I\u2019m gonna keep saying it. He has done good stuff for the black community — opportunity zone stuff, black college stuff. I worked with him on criminal justice stuff. I saw Donald Trump had African-American people formerly incarcerated in the White House, embrace them, treated them well. There\u2019s a side to Donald Trump that I think he does not get enough credit for.<\/p>\n
BRETT: Wow. A moment of truth and clarity. Rush talked about this very challenge: Racist Democrats smearing Tim Scott for doing the job they won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n