Barack Obama bashed Republican presidential hopefuls Nikki Haley’s and Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) perspectives on race relations.
“You can’t miss this opportunity. America was hungry for bringing our country together, this coalition building where you can see Black kids and White kids and red ones and brown ones, as MLK spoke about, joining hands and singing with new meaning, ‘My country ‘tis of thee.’”
Scott further contended that “the one thing the far left does not want a Black person to be in this country is a conservative.” Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who is a GOP candidate for president, speaks with his staff at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2023.“Let us not forget we are a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression. Democrats deny our progress to protect their power. The Left wants you to believe faith in America is a fraud and progress in our nation is a myth. The truth of MY life disproves the lies of the radical Left.
Obama was the first black president, Haley was the first Indian American to serve in the presidential cabinet and the second Indian American to serve as governor in the country, while Scott is the first black senator from South Carolina.Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley smiles while taking a question from the audience during a campaign event May 24, 2023.At various times in his presidency, Obama reflected on race, including during the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012.
As governor of South Carolina, she carefully led the state to take down the Confederate flag flying over the state capital in the wake of the deadly Charleston church shooting that killed nine black attendees at a Bible study in a racially targeted attack.up about his experience getting stopped by security seven times in one year. He emphasized that this was an unfortunate reality for black Americans across the country.
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