South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s first joint address to Congress Wednesday, offering a firm rebuke to the left’s vilification of the United States as an irredeemably racist empire built for the purpose to oppress.
“Just before COVID, we had the most inclusive economy in my lifetime,” Scott said, touting record progress for minorities in a nation millions continue to seek refuge in from around the globe.
The lowest unemployment ever recorded for African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans. The lowest for women in nearly 70 years. Wages were growing faster for the bottom 25 percent than the top 25 percent. That happened because Republicans focused on expanding opportunity for all Americans.
Leftist online keyboard warriors, however, were less than enthusiastic that a black senator dissented from their claim that all black people and minorities are oppressed by a Republican Party supposedly infected with white supremacy.
The words “Uncle Tim” began trending on Twitter, tying Scott to the pre-Civil War slave character “Uncle Tom” in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1850s abolition book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” “Uncle Tom” is used as a slur against black people. Yet the racially offensive trend was amplified by Twitter in its trending topics for hours following the speech.
You might want to take a pause and see who is calling him that. Even for you this is an incredible self own. https://t.co/GtnXQ0IlSl
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 29, 2021
I'd totally be unsurprised to learn that Stephen Miller wrote that bullshit speech for Uncle Tim.
That would make more sense.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 29, 2021
I just turned off the Tim Scott Uncle Tom GQP Rebuttal. I don’t need their token sharing their propaganda in my home after hearing an exceptional speech and plans for the future. Not today Satan.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) April 29, 2021
While saying this, UNCLE Tim Scott said America is not a racist society. https://t.co/4JSqgiH0Sx
— Mr. Vegas (@MrVegasMusic) April 29, 2021
https://twitter.com/charmage/status/1387602841511026689?s=20
In my defense I actually said “Uncle TIM.”
And he was talking about his nephews!
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) April 29, 2021
Uncle Tim
— Luther Luke Campbell (@unclelukereal1) April 29, 2021
https://twitter.com/JerrellZod/status/1387607020895866886?s=20
Uncle Tom… sorry, Uncle Tim is a very confused black man.
“America is not a racist society.”
“I have experienced the pain of discrimination.”
Worse, he is from SC… yet to release #AndrewBrown’s execution tapes.#PresidentialAddress #JointAddress #BidenAddress pic.twitter.com/5Bl3Kihauw
— Andrew Mungai (@SaintMungai) April 29, 2021
In his speech, Scott addressed racist smears he dealt with in his youth, sharing again the story of his family’s rise from cotton to Congress in one lifetime, a history “fact-checked” by the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler who combed through Scott’s bloodline and called on the senator to check his poor farming family’s “privilege.”
“I have experienced the pain of discrimination. I know what it feels like to be pulled over for no reason, to be followed around the store while I’m shopping,” Scott said.
I’ve also experienced a different time of intolerance. I get called ‘Uncle Tom’ and the N-word by progressives, by liberals. Just last week, a national newspaper suggested my family’s poverty was actually privileged because a relative owned land generations before my time. Believe me, I know first-hand our healing is not finished.
In response to President Biden's address to Congress, Sen. Tim Scott calls out "progressives" who call him "Uncle Tom" and "N-Word." He also called out The Washington Post "fact-checker" Glenn Kessler who targeted his family history. pic.twitter.com/7k7I7qwUOM
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 29, 2021
