There’s probably nothing more ironic than a white liberal telling an African-American man that he does not understand “racism.”
During an off-the-rails segment on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Joy Behar said South Carolina Republican Sen. does not seem to understand the difference between racism and systemic racism.
The conversation began when the panel spoke about Scott giving the State of the Union rebuttal to Joe Biden’s speech on Wednesday, during which Scott talked about race and said that the United States isn’t a racist country.
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“He does not seem to understand — and a lot of them don’t seem to understand — the difference between a racist country and systemic racism,” Behar told the panel.
“Maybe it’s not a racist country, maybe Americans — the majority — are not racist. But we live in a country with systemic racism,” said Behar, who also called it “appalling” that Scott didn’t “acknowledge” the existence of systemic racism in the United States during his speech.
“At least acknowledge that there is systemic racism,” she added.
Sunny Hostin, another co-host of “The View,” said that Scott was chosen to give the rebuttal speech because of his race.
“Why was he chosen to give this rebuttal? He was chosen because he is the only black Republican senator,” said Hostin.
“He is the person that Republicans want to put out front because of the problem of racism in this country and he knows that. So I was sort of disappointed that he was used in this way and didn’t take that opportunity to address that type of — this type of issue head-on,” she added.
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Scott was praised for his impressive speech on Wednesday night, where he spoke about unity, finding common ground about race, and how he did not think America is a racist country.
Scott said that he himself knows the “pain of discrimination,” having been “pulled over for no reason” and “followed around a store.”
He also added: “I’ve also experienced a different kind of intolerance. I get called ‘Uncle Tom’ and the N-word by progressives, by liberals. Just last week, a national newspaper suggested my family’s poverty was actually a privilege because a relative owned land generations before my time.”
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