Senator Tim Scott is often called a rising star in the GOP as he continues to increase in popularity.
Hes currently the only black Republican in the Senate, and hes putting Representative Hakeem Jeffries on blast for comments he made 30 years ago.
According to Fox News, Scott, a rising star in the GOP and the only Black Republican in the Senate, criticized Jeffries, the first Black lawmaker to lead a party in Congress, for calling Black conservatives right-wing opportunists and seemingly comparing them with the House Negro during the enslavement of African Americans in the nations pre-Civil War period. Scott recently launched a presidential exploratory committee. He said that he wants to encourage people to quit demonizing people. Many say that Scott is headed to a White House 2024 race.
Jeffries is criticized for the words written when he was 21 and a student at Binghamton University in New York. Jeffries had invited his uncle to speak on campus and defended him after his uncle sparked a massive backlash for offensive comments. Fox News says, In the editorial, the future federal lawmaker wrote: There has been a recent trend in the Black political arena which I believe threatens to sustain the oppression of the Black masses. The phenomenon I refer to is the rise of the Black conservative.
Jeffries talked about the two types of people during African enslavement and referred to them as the Field Negro and House Negro. He explained that the Field Negro labored in the fields all day, was full of contempt for the white master, and that was the masses. Then he stated that a House Negro dressed like his white master, believed he was better than the masses and did this for personal gain.
The disturbing words dont stop there. Fox says, Jeffries argued: Perhaps this is the problem with the black conservative politician of today. Their political agenda is not designed to contribute to the upliftment of their people. These right-wing opportunists espouse the political ideology of the power structure and, in return, they are elevated to positions historically reserved for whites. According to Jeffries, it was a phenomenon that needed to be studied.
The spokesperson for Jeffries threw a quick dig at Senator, saying that its hard to believe someone who wants to be President has nothing better to do than look at papers that are 21 years old. Do you think his previous words should impact his being in Congress now?
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