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yinzer38
07-15-2016, 11:41 AM
(http://reason.com/blog/2016/07/14/in-moving-speech-gop-sen-tim-scott-descr)

In Moving Speech, GOP Sen. Tim Scott Describes Being Racially Profiled

"There's absolutely nothing more damaging to your soul than when you know you're following the rules and being treated like you are not."

"This speech is perhaps the most difficult," Sen. Tim Scott (R–S.C.) began yesterday, "because it's the most personal."

He proceeded to spend a moving 16 and a half minutes talking on the Senate floor about what it's like to be a black man in the United States—and how it feels to be treated differently from other people, and even targeted by authorities, because of what you look like. Among other striking anecdotes, he detailed being turned away from an event while two white members of his staff were admitted without question. On another occasion, despite the fact that he was wearing the pin that identifies him as a U.S. senator, a member of the Capitol Police stopped him and demanded he show ID, saying, "The pin I recognize. You, I don't."

"Keep in mind, I'm one of the easier senators to recognize," Scott quipped. (There are only two African Americans in the Senate—Scott and Democrat Corey Booker.)

The GOP rising star (who's held his seat since 2013 and served in the U.S. House and state and local politics before that) also shared that in a single year, he was stopped by cops seven times. "Not four, not five, not six, but seven times—in one year, as an elected official," he said.

Scott pointed out that the experience of feeling targeted "for nothing more than being just yourself" is widespread: "I do not know many African-American men who do not have a very similar story to tell, no matter their profession, no matter their income, no matter their disposition in life."

In one of the most powerful lines of the speech, he quoted a former staffer as saying "there's absolutely nothing more frustrating, more damaging to your soul, than when you know you're following the rules and being treated like you are not."

"Today I simply ask of you this," the senator concluded. "Recognize that just because you do not feel the pain, the anguish, of another, does not mean it does not exist."

I'd encourage you to watch the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmMQimrT8qk

ArrestPoliticians
07-15-2016, 11:51 AM
and this is why BLM is positive and pro liberty at its root, although being co-opted by the Soros crowd to create division where there should be unity.

bunklocoempire
07-15-2016, 01:36 PM
Police are a centralized monopoly of force. What do you do with a toy that brings nothing but sorrow and division to a group of kids who can't help but fight over it?

Recommend the kids get their own individual toys, and ditch the shared, prone to corruption, one-size-fits-all, top down, government "solution".

If I'm not talking about the wisdom and advantages of individuals being responsible for their own protection, I'm confusing the issue and legitimizing the centralized system of police. He doesn't mention anything about the court decided, legal non-responsibility of police.

Yes, the experiences proving what a fail the toy is, most certainly suck. He should have a "serious conversation" about power, and recognize what his accepted toy actually promotes.

I have no idea what chips this politician owes, or is after.

helmuth_hubener
07-15-2016, 02:07 PM
"There's absolutely nothing more damaging to your soul than when you know you're following the rules and being treated like you are not."


Oh, please.

What a joke.

wizardwatson
07-15-2016, 02:08 PM
and this is why BLM is positive and pro liberty at its root, although being co-opted by the Soros crowd to create division where there should be unity.

I saw a video or something on Facebook, where a kid was alone in public and was looking sad. It was a social experiment to see how people would react.

http://www.ktnv.com/now-trending/watch-why-unicef-had-to-cut-its-social-experiment-short-1

For half the time the kid was wearing crappy clothes and looked homeless. The other half of the time she was wearing good clothes and looked like she was well taken care of.

I shouldn't even have to explain what the study demonstrated.

Bigotry, tribalism, discrimination, these are qualities all humans possess and I would say only relieved of with an liberty oriented, even Christian, mindset.

Applying solutions collectively like BLM proposes only exacerbates these qualities. Solutions must apply to all individuals because all individuals possess this tendency to act in a discriminatory manner. To think otherwise, is to perpetuate the very thing you claim to be against.

ArrestPoliticians
07-15-2016, 05:13 PM
There's nothing collective about equal protection under the law. That's what they were marching for.

RandallFan
07-15-2016, 09:58 PM
Tim Scott took his orders from Lindsey Graham & Trey Gowdy to concern troll Trump on the David Duke kerfuffle.

Congress should actually refuse to discuss this issue for 6 months and just politely mourn the dead.

If Tim Scott was rumble, tumble, I could respect it; but he throws out this crap like Rubio & Cruz throw out their Cuban freedom-loving heritage as some sort of ticket to the donors or some sort of crossover appeal; that forces people to listen to another generic crappy member of congress.

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20160228/PC16/160229340/tim-scott-on-trump-x2019-s-refusal-to-repudiate-david-duke-kkk-x2018-we-cannot-trust-him-to-stand-up-for-america-x2019


“If Donald Trump can’t take a stand against the KKK, we cannot trust him to stand up for America against Putin, Iran or ISIS,” he said.

What a fucking joke. Trump was hilarious. "I dont need their support." As if to throw a bone to the Hollywood producers who made people believe that American History X gave skinheads superhuman powers to be good at basketball.

specsaregood
07-15-2016, 10:09 PM
I've been racially profiled as well for being white in black neighborhoods. I've gotten pulled over simply because the cops thought I was in the area to buy drugs. I didn't get butthurt or make speeches about it though. I was just thankful that I hadn't bought any yet.

AuH20
07-15-2016, 10:28 PM
and this is why BLM is positive and pro liberty at its root, although being co-opted by the Soros crowd to create division where there should be unity.

Pro Liberty? BLM wants to grow the government and federalize the police.

P3ter_Griffin
07-15-2016, 10:57 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fikab1wCMvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fikab1wCMvo

P3ter_Griffin
07-15-2016, 11:00 PM
Pro Liberty? BLM wants to grow the government and federalize the police.

It's creators, Soros, Clinton, McKay et al, do. If Scott had managed to shepard the 'sheep' his way?....

P3ter_Griffin
07-15-2016, 11:13 PM
I'm not far off from where Scott is at. He calls on individual action and action by church members... but also for some state and federal solutions that I think could be better handled by these same individuals and churches and possibly local representatives.

ArrestPoliticians
07-16-2016, 07:05 AM
Pro Liberty? BLM wants to grow the government and federalize the police.

That's like saying the tea party wants to kill all Muslims. It's been taken over and coopted but the average person in BLm marches just wants to be left alone.

AuH20
07-16-2016, 12:11 PM
That's like saying the tea party wants to kill all Muslims. It's been taken over and coopted but the average person in BLm marches just wants to be left alone.

Left alone? What large organization do you think the BLM wants to utilize to address their many grievances? ROFL The Black Panthers exhibit far more isolationist tendencies than a plurality of BLM, who are predominantly unrepentant socialists. There is nothing 'live and let live' in their agenda.

erowe1
07-16-2016, 12:20 PM
Tim Scott took his orders from Lindsey Graham & Trey Gowdy to concern troll Trump on the David Duke kerfuffle.


You neglected to mention Ron Paul.

surf
07-16-2016, 12:30 PM
Left alone? What large organization do you think the BLM wants to utilize to address their many grievances? ROFL The Black Panthers exhibit far more isolationist tendencies than a plurality of BLM, who are predominantly unrepentant socialists. There is nothing 'live and let live' in their agenda.not sure where you're coming from, but BLM seems to be primarily about trying to reduce racial profiling by cops and reduce the death and destruction caused by LEOs.

I disagree: I see their agenda as primarily and literally "live and let live." I am with the unrepentant socialists on this.

cops need to be people, not special people as they see themselves now. i'd like to think BLM is aware of this.

RandallFan
07-16-2016, 05:53 PM
BLM supports putting guns to the head & Swat Teams to faculty and letting lower tested blacks over a more qualified white candidate.

ArrestPoliticians
07-17-2016, 09:18 PM
Because you're choosing to falsely aggregate the globalist funded groups with the actual concerned citizens at the rallies.