Trump VP contender faces backlash for Jim Crow comments - eviltoast
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    A vice presidential contender for former President Donald Trump’s 2024 ticket is facing backlash over his comments suggesting that life was better for Black Americans under Jim Crow.

    Representative Byron Donalds is being criticized over comments he made Tuesday at a Trump campaign in Philadelphia aimed at engaging Black voters. During his remarks, Donalds, who is Black, said he is starting to see the “reinvigoration of the Black family,” which he believes was eroded by Democratic policies that Black voters embraced after the civil rights movement.

    “You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative—Black people have always been conservative-minded—but more Black people voted conservatively,” Donalds said. “And then [the former Department of Health, Education and Welfare], Lyndon Johnson—you go down that road, and now we are where we are.”

    Must be from the Real Red Pill History of The United Staes by Candace Owens

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      Black VP contender touting the positives of Jim Crow and a black Supreme Court Justice wanting to revisit a landmark desegregation case? The GOP is a cult, straight up!