One of Donald Trump's favorite blacks, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL-19), had flattering words to say about Jim Crow segregation.
“You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together,” Mr. Donalds said. “During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — because Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively.” Mr. Donalds’s comments drew criticism from members of President Biden’s campaign, which has been trying to shore up his diminished support from voters of color, particularly among Black men. Sarafina Chitika, a spokeswoman for Mr. Biden’s campaign, assailed Mr. Donalds’s remarks. “Donald Trump spent his adult life, and then his presidency, undermining the progress Black communities fought so hard for — so it actually tracks that his campaign’s ‘Black outreach’ is going to a white neighborhood and promising to take America back to Jim Crow,” Ms. Chitika said in a statement to The New York Times. She said that Black voters would reject Mr. Trump’s “racist agenda” in November. Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the House minority leader, also condemned Mr. Donalds on Wednesday, making a thinly veiled reference to the congressman during remarks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. “That’s an outlandish, outrageous and out-of-pocket observation,” Mr. Jeffries said of Mr. Donalds’s comments, pointing to the lynchings and inequities that defined the Jim Crow era. “How dare you make such an ignorant observation? You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.”
Rep. Jeffries, my district representative, does have a way with words. Can't wait until he's Speaker next year. 😊
FYI...
During the Jim Crow era, which lasted from the end of the Civil War until the 1950s, Black people in the United States were subjected to legal and social segregation and were brutalized by racist authorities. They were denied voting rights and could not check into white-only hotels or buy homes in predominantly white neighborhoods. The discrimination of the era severely disadvantaged Black families from an economic standpoint, often creating the need for larger families — and contributing to the widely-held belief among Black conservatives that they were more unified.
How would Donalds even be able to track black political affiliation during Jim Crow? Most blacks in the South faced legal barriers which prevented them from voting from the late 19th century until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Donalds is from Florida where history is being whitewashed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis; so Donalds is a rather faulty history teacher.
Perhaps when DeSantis isn't looking, Donalds should get caught up on some real history.
Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020
Donalds is just another obsequious Republican who grovels at the feet of Donald Trump in hope of getting a few crumbs tossed in his direction. Maybe Donalds thinks that praising the segregation era will get Trump's attention and help him get a spot as Trump's running mate.
