Tim Scott and Nikki Haley purposely miss Obama’s point
Tim Scott and Nikki Haley telling Republicans what they want to hear has limitations.
In a recent interview with his former senior advisor, David Axelrod, on his CNN podcast The Axe Files, former President Obama was asked about how nonwhite Republicans like Senator Tim Scott and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley broach the issue of racism compared to the way he did as a candidate.
During their conversation about political messaging, Axelrod said that Scott often sounded like Obama’s infamous speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in that he, too, makes the case that his success is a testament to the progress the country has made on race.
Where they differ, however, is that Scott often cites that success as proof that racism and discrimination are “part of the past and we don’t need to worry so much about it.”
Both are comforting messages to white voters, but only candidates of a particular party go out of their way to pretend racism is now majorly a figment of (lefty) imagination.
“I think there is a long history of African American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say everything’s great and we can all make it,” Obama said.
