LEFTIST BIGOTS: Sen. Tim Scott Reads RACIST Tweets Over His Support Of Jeff Sessions (VIDEO)
Senator Tim Scott (R) South Carolina reads out shocking tweets that he received because he was a black man supporting Sen. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General.
He covered a lot of ground in his speech, even praising Democrat Senator John Lewis for his Civil Rights activism in the 1960s.
.@SenatorTimScott: "When I leave the U.S. Senate one day I'm still going to be black." Watch LIVE on C-SPAN2 https://t.co/N9qPdAy0Rf pic.twitter.com/PkUxjekpmU
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 8, 2017
He then proceeded to read the vile tweets he has received as a black man supporting the appointment of Sen. Jeff Sessions to the position of Attorney General.
Sen. Tim Scott is on the Senate floor reading off bigoted tweets he's gotten for supporting Sessions' nomination.
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) February 8, 2017
Watch as @SenatorTimScott responds to mean tweets on the Senate floor, reminding us that tolerance of dissent should be a bipartisan value. https://t.co/RXVmOgVVtq
— Michael Cohen (@michaelcohen) February 8, 2017
Sen. Scott said that he wouldn’t read out the ones with the ‘N’ word because it wouldn’t be appropriate.
.@SenatorTimScott reads tweets criticizing his endorsement of Sen. Jeff Sessions: "I left out all the ones that use the n-word." pic.twitter.com/AhTnGaUyiz
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 8, 2017
Of course, there was outrage on the Left:
Just retweetwing this since I gave up on finding a single black person who expressed any support for @SenatorTimScott BS speech to whitey https://t.co/61exdwFfHR
— #Resistance (@jryangolden) February 8, 2017
@cspan @SenatorTimScott Boy, don't you tire of the being the GOP token black man?
— C&G Eclectics (@cgeclectics) February 8, 2017
But many Republicans were thrilled:
.@SenatorTimScott: "If you sign up to be a black conservative you will be attacked."
— Emma Dumain (@Emma_Dumain) February 8, 2017
.@SenatorTimScott is reading tweets on his support for Sessions. One called him "Uncle Tim Scott."
— Emma Dumain (@Emma_Dumain) February 8, 2017
"How does a black man turn on his own?" Sen. Scott says, reading more critical tweets of himself. "He's a house negro."
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) February 8, 2017
Another called him a "white man in a black body." Racism — it's all over the political map. https://t.co/D0c0z6d7ta
— Karoun Demirjian (@karoun) February 8, 2017
@SenatorTimScott "Too many on the Republican side are wrongly accused that they are rascist…with no knowledge of the person"
— Guardian of an Angel (@CutestBabyInUSA) February 8, 2017
.@SenatorTimScott: "I wish my liberal friends…would want to be innocent to proven innocent and not innocent until proven guilty."
— Emma Dumain (@Emma_Dumain) February 8, 2017
@SenatorTimScott Quote me: We are the party of Abraham Lincoln. No race or religion will desuade us from freeing all Americans.
— Guardian of an Angel (@CutestBabyInUSA) February 8, 2017
@SenatorTimScott is crushing it on the Senate floor right now. #truth
— Dallas Gerber (@DallasGerber) February 8, 2017
My heart is literally dropping listening to @SenatorTimScott on the floor right now.
— Erin Gray (@emgray) February 8, 2017
"He is not a racist." @SenatorTimScott just stomped on the racist narrative of @jeffsessions. #ContentOfHisCharacter ⚖️ pic.twitter.com/qEcvZt3abQ
— David (@big03DAVE) February 8, 2017
I can't say how much I love Tim Scott calling out the REAL racists. https://t.co/VSYXzuTIgm
— BigJim (@BigJimNC55) February 8, 2017
If @senatortimscott is not the future of the Republican party…well, he is.
— Hank Campbell (@HankCampbell) February 8, 2017
You can watch Sen. Tim Scott’s full speech here:
What do you think of what Sen. Scott had to say?
Is he right or ridiculous?
