Commentary
Amid the left’s demagoguing of conservative blacks in the Republican Party, South Carolina’s black Republican Sen. Tim Scott, 57, hasn’t officially entered the 2024 presidential race, but he is exploring the possibility.
I have followed Scott’s career about as long as his decade in the U.S. Senate, where he is the lone black member.
While the Biden left insists that we are a racist country, Scott disagrees and speaks cogently on race in America, during which he will relate his cotton to congress story as he tells you about this “hopeless kid” raised by his single mother in poverty.
‘I know America is a land of opportunity not a land of oppression,” he says in his three-minute introductory video, “I know it because I’ve lived it.”
If you were so politically inclined, you saw his excellent response to President Biden’s 2021 State of the Union Address, reminding viewers that Biden promised to unite the country and lower the temperature of rhetoric, but instead delivered more division.
Just as there’s an opportunity for the right woman to be president, the same is true for the right black to become president. Although Barack Obama was elected, I contend, however, that he was not the right black and there is plenty of evidence of his shortcomings.
You may recall it was the conservative pundit David Brooks, who ridiculously foresaw Obama as the next president merely because of his “perfectly creased pant leg.”
I place Obama among the elite left, that has turned most of the Democrat party away from Joe six-pack.
Obama, a community organizer with just three years in the Senate, supported by the racist pastor Jeremiah Wright, was not the right black, but was elected president, some say by guilt-ridden whites.
Scott is smart and extremely likeable, unlike Obama and Representatives Hakeem Jeffries and John Lewis. I see Scott more as a combination of Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, and Jason Whitlock.
The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal seems to agree, stating recently, “Mr. Scott is impossible to dislike, a sharp contrast with most of today’s angry politicians.”
It’s what he isn’t that impresses me. He’s not in your face with his blackness or on the issue of racism. That, and the fact that he espouses conservative views, makes him a token in the eyes of black commentators on the leftist networks.
It was revealed this week that Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries once compared black conservatives to “house negroes,” who seek to emulate white conservatives.
It will be very interesting if he decides to jump into the race for the presidency. When the American people get to know him, see him, and listen to his views, I believe they will be impressed.
Can he get elected? No doubt, he will make people forget Obama, but can he make them forget Donald Trump? With his quick smile and his thoughtful consideration of the issues, he does give voters the fresh face many are looking for in 2024.
Meanwhile
Mike Pompeo, perhaps the best qualified candidate for the presidency, decided he will not enter the race in 2024. Pompeo graduated at the top of his class at West Point, served in the House of Representatives, as CIA director and secretary of state.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
