Sen. Tim Scott On If He Believes There Is Systemic Racism In America | The View

I was so glad when you threw your hat in the race, you are a traditional conservative who has been willing to reach across the aisle and I think you embrace a hopeful message that I have overlooked in our politics for some time, how do you plan to try? reach the roughly 74 million Americans who supported the former president, many of whom may have been attracted to a kind of brash approach to politics with a more hopeful, future-oriented message. I think people are hungry for something hopeful and optimistic. I believe that America could do for anyone what she did for me restoring hope, creating opportunity, and defending and protecting the America we love is a very important combination, especially when I think about restoring hope.

I am a child who grew up in a single-parent household mired in poverty for When I was in fourth grade, I went to four different elementary schools as a freshman in high school. I felt four subjects and because of that I understand and appreciate the importance of hope. One of the ways we can restore hope to this country is a focus. In our education system we didn't have too many poor children and zip codes trapped in failing schools. I want parents to have the choice of which children have the best chance if we focus on those issues: 67 percent of Democrats, 68 of independents, 70 percent of Republicans 72 percent of African Americans 66 percent of Hispanics agree on some form of school choice because, at the end of the day, my mom loves her child more than Republicans or Democrats, so the real combination is: can we find a way? to achieve it?

America is better if every child in every zip code has a quality education and, frankly, creates opportunities for me. I started as a small business owner in the late 1990s, it helped me achieve the goals I had for my life, one of the most important. The whole point of being raised by that single mother was to make sure that she had the opportunity to walk into a garage without having to worry about walking into an apartment where you look to your left, you look to your right, trying to make sure. that you are safe, my goal in life growing up was to make sure I bought him a house, but more importantly, a garage, and thus have the ability to live the American dream and see these goals that I set out to achieve early in life .

What I think the American dream should be about is ensuring that every person, based on their character, their courage and their talent, can reach the highest level that is humanly possible and I will say that the transformation that I have seen in my life and in South Carolina can be measured by the millions of lives that are absolutely different today than they have ever been, particularly when I look back at my grandfather's life Senator I wonder if he wanted to pass Governor DeSantis announced two weeks ago that he's also running in 2024 and right now he's sitting, you know, it's early, but second only to the former president, one question I have is someone who is more traditional conservative: what does that say about the kind of extremes to which that some members of your party have moved because for me it does not reflect conservatism?

I'll just say that as a guy on the campaign trail in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, the early voting states, what I found really refreshing is that the positive, optimistic message hasn't been shared for so long that we've been in embroidery. battles for so long that when people hear the message as long as it is anchored in conservatism and has a backbone, people are interested in participating in the conversation rather than having a message about populism, having a message about principles is something that attracts more people and the last time I went to Iowa, which was last weekend, the crowd size doubled and the enthusiasm doubled.

Every time I come back it gets better and better, so my hope and my theory is that America has been waiting for someone to come. shows up who's more interested in American progress and the big car windshield and less interested in the rear

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mirror, except to make sure we have a compass for where we're going, well, senator, I'm actually glad you're here. we have some things in common you grew up you grew up in a single family home single mother home I grew up with both my parents but I grew up in the projects of the Bronx in the middle of a lot of poverty and violence and you are the first black senator elected in the South since Reconstruction, I think it was 114 years, but you say that your life contradicts it, uh, leftist lies and my question for you is: I am the exception, right, you are the exception, maybe even Miss Whoopi Goldberg is the exception, but no We are the rule, so when it comes to racial inequality persisting in five central aspects of life in the US: economy, education, health care, criminal justice and housing in almost every aspect, these achievements were fought, most often threatened and erased by white people. violence you have indicated that you do not believe in

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let me ask you answer the question that you have answered or does it even exist in your mind let me answer the question this way one of the Things I think about and one of the reasons I'm on the show is because of the comments that were made candidly on the show that the only way for a young African-American man to be successful in this country is to be the exception. and not the paper that is a dangerous, offensive and disgusting message to send to our young people today that the only way to succeed is to be the exception.

I will tell you that if my life is the exception, I cannot imagine it. It is, but it's not really here, it's 114 years, yeah, so the fact of the matter is we've had an African American president, an African American vice president, we've had two African Americans as secretaries of state in my house. City the police chief is an African American now running for mayor the South Carolina highway patrol chief is an African American in 19 In 1975 there was about 15 percent employment in the African American community for the first time in history of the country is less than five percent 40 percent homeless and fifty percent of the people in our community 13 of the population asks the question I know I've seen you on the show that you like people to be deferential and respectful so I'm going to do the same, so this is what I'm going to suggest.

I'm going to suggest that the fact is that progress in America is palpable. It could be measured in generations. I look back at the fact that my grandfather, my father, was born. In 1921 in Sally, South Carolina, when he was on a sidewalk, a white person was approaching, she had to get off and not make eye contact. That man believed then with some doubts now and the goodness of America because he believed that having faith in God. Belief in yourself and belief in what the future could hold for your children would unleash opportunities in ways you wouldn't imagine every child today can look at, just turn the seasons and see how much progress has been made in this country ABC NBC CBS ESPN CNN Fox All the news has African American and Hispanic anchors so what I am suggesting is that yesterday's exception is today's rule and for us it has kept its promise, no of course the concept of America is that we will become a more perfect union, but in fact, the challenges we faced 50 and 60 years ago should not be the same challenges we face today and here is a way to measure that when my mother was born, about 10 percent of the African Americans earned a high school diploma. today it's more than 90 percent when you look at the revenue when you look at the revenue success that we found, the HBCU staff listen well, the hbcus app is good because one of the reasons I took the funding for hbcus to the highest level of history. of the country and then helped make it permanent is because I believe education is the closest thing to Magic in America, so my goal is to make sure our kids have as many opportunities to succeed as possible.

It's one of the reasons I had a chance because I have to go to bed I'm just getting started people can see the success I've had you know I sat back and listened to everything you said yes and I'm wondering why these conversations didn't All the exceptional things you're talking about seem to hold up with Republicans and one of the reasons we keep having a new exceptionalism is because every time people take 40 steps forward, they get dragged 40 steps back, so do they? How do we do it as a nation? As a nation we apparently go down the right path and then we go backwards, so you as a black man and as one of the other two black people, yes, yes, senators, yes, yes, Raphael, that's about three, now we still keep Cory Booker, okay, that's right. three yes, but you yourself have talked about when the police stopped you, so how can you get your party to stop trying to stop the progress people are making?

Yeah, that's what I complained about when I talked about I want you to come out and say, listen, Republicans have these problems, so yeah, I think humans have these problems, yeah, yeah, the problem of discrimination that I've faced, I guess you face too, it's an issue of the heart, it's not the Republicans or the Democrats, frankly both sides of the aisle can do a better job on the issue of race and frankly, my side of the owl I think You are doing a fabulous job of making progress. The question is how we measure that progress. How is that?

Well, let me give you a couple of examples for when you think. about this is good news, yeah, so I thought you just had a question. I'll give you the answer anyway, that's how it works, so I was the one who talked to you, so I would love to be next to her, come here. have a conversation come on ladies sit down sir sit down sit down yes yes a couple of quick answers as I was talking to Anna about the fact that yes your back looks great from here anyway , so the truth of the matter is that when you look at progress in the Senate, especially on the Republican side African American chiefs of staff on the Republican side the only African American chief and staff was mine the only current Hispanic chief of staff who happens to be a woman is mine we look the fact that when I helped rewrite the tax code in 2017 I focused on my experience growing up, which was a single mother.

I reduced your taxes. Single mothers like mine, average income about forty thousand dollars for 73, only one black senator at 50. us. We're talking about progress, there's only two on the other side, there's only two on the other side, so someone here, yeah, go ahead, yeah, so the truth is when you measure success and progress in this nation, one of the things you have to do is look at the statistical realities that we brought, we brought African American unemployment when we lowered taxes to the lowest level in the history of this country for the first time, below six percent, we got to 5.4 percent. , huge and that didn't leak, let's just take a look at that, if you want to talk about statistical realities, the statistical reality that we can't even argue with is that African Americans are what 14 15 13 13 and they are three percent of the US Senate is just one statistic that has actually improved significantly in the last decade let's take a look at the number of African Americans who have served in the Senate in the last 10 years Mo Cowan of Massachusetts you have Cory Booker you have myself you have Kamala Harris we have Warnock so the fact of the matter is that in less than the last decade we have had about half of all African Americans who have ever served in The Descent in the last decade, which means that this nation is making measurable progress in real terms. time and if we focus on that and continue to make progress we will fulfill the notion that this is the nation that can become more perfect and what I'm concerned about is fixing the structures and the systemic racism that is ingrained, we don't have to agree.

We don't have to agree that the definition goes up and say it don't tell them say it from the mountain we have to go to the commercial we will go down