04-30-2021, 12:04 AM
What was cute about Scott playing the race card was that Biden's speech really wasn't about race.
Christine Emba wrote:
What was so strange about this speech was that Scott didn’t even seem to believe many of the words he said — producing evidence against his claims each time he made one.
“It’s wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present,” he said, which is why I’ll cite my cotton-picking grandfather as a reason we can no longer state that racism exists.
“I’m an African American who has voted in the South all my life. I take voting rights personally,” which leads me to grimace through the absurd claim that Republicans support making it easier to vote.
“Original sin is never the end of the story. Not in our souls, and not for our nation. The real story is always redemption,” which is why I will argue that we should stop trying to atone for racism, our original sin.
“Our healing is not finished.” But maybe everyone — especially Joe Biden — should shut up about it.