Scott Suggests Life Under LBJ Was Worse Than Slavery

The New Republic reports:

A lot of deplorable things were said during the Republican debate on Wednesday night, but this comment from Republican candidate Tim Scott may take the cake. During the debate Scott argued that welfare assistance was harder than slavery for Black Americans. “Black families survived slavery!” he exclaimed. “We survived poll taxes and literacy tests.”

“We survived discrimination being woven into the laws of our country,” he added, in a line that for a moment sounded like he might actually be acknowledging systemic racism. “What was hard to survive was Johnson’s Great Society, where they decided to put money– where they decided to take the Black father out of the household to get a check in the mail.”

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A lot of deplorable things were said during the Republican debate on Wednesday night, but this comment from Republican candidate Tim Scott may take the cake. #GOPDebate https://t.co/RsVTiX8aIk

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 28, 2023

Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fair Housing Act of 1968, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and launched the War on Poverty. https://t.co/WROzXSQQL5

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) September 28, 2023