Source:CNN– President Barack H. Obama (Democrat, Illinois) 44th President of the United States (2009-17)

Source:The New Democrat 

“Former president Barack Obama responded to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) comments on the Republican Party’s progress on race.”

From CNN

“Both sides of the aisle can do a better job on the issue of race,” the Republican presidential candidate tells “The View” co-hosts.”

Source:The View– U.S. Senator Tim Scott (Republican, South Carolina)

From The View

I think this whole discussion about race in America in the African-American community, is the perfect example of why no racial or ethnic group is monolithic.

You have a left-wing and far-left-wing in the African-American community, you have a Black Nationalist wing in the African-American community, you a center-left-wing in the African-American community, but you also have a center-right-wing in that community as well, that Senator Tim Scott represents, whose been in Congress since 2011.

African-Americans get stereotyped as left-wing Democrats, or at least as Democrats, who always vote for Democrats and always want more government and more government spending in their communities, more Welfare, etc. And of course there are leftists in that community, but there are leftists in every racial and ethnic community.

One’s political philosophy is not determined by race, ethnicity, or color. It’s determined by one’s own upbringing and own personal experiences and what they personally go through in their own lives. Not. because of their DNA or complexion.

So you look at Senator Tim Scott who was part of the Tea Party wave in the House of Representatives, who was elected to the House in 2010 and then appointed to the U.S. Senate a couple years later and won election statewide in South Carolina (by the way) as an African-American Republican, whose saying what African-Americans, what all Americans who are struggling in America, need, is an opportunity to achieve their own American dream. Not a handout, not affirmative action, not more welfare, but a good education, a chance to get themselves the skills that they need to make it in America.

While everyone else on The View, except for Alyssa Farah Griffin, whose also a Conservative Republican, essentially saying:

“It’s the whole racist system in America that’s holding African-Americans down, not the lack of opportunity. And we need to take down the whole racist system and replace it with something more equal and just.” Which has always been the left-wing view about race and inequality in America.

And then President Obama saying, who don’t think he agrees with Senator Scott on this, saying that we (meaning the left in America) shouldn’t put down people as bad and as bigots, simply because they say things that we don’t like and don’t put everything exactly the way we want them to, or don’t completely agree with us (meaning the left) on everything, especially when it comes to race in America.