*Barack Obama is calling out minority presidential candidates in the GOP whose perspectives on race relations often seem at odds with reality.
Speaking to Democratic strategist David Axelrod, former President Obama noted that “there’s a long history of African-American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say, ‘Everything’s great, and we can make it.’”
As the New York Post reports, Obama added: “Nikki Haley I think has a similar approach.”
Haley has accused Obama of exploiting victimhood politics.
“Barack Obama set minorities back by singling them out as victims instead of empowering them. In America, hard work and personal responsibility matter. My parents didn’t raise me to think that I would forever be a victim. They raised me to know that I was responsible for my success,” Haley said in a statement to the New York Post.
When Senator Scott appeared on “The View” recently, he noted that there’s no systemic racism as evidenced by the successful Black public officials. But as one Twitter user responded, “… the presence of progress doesn’t prove the absence of racism.”
Obama claims he has “spent a lot of time studying Tim Scott’s speeches.”
“I’m not being cynical about Tim Scott individually, but I am maybe suggesting the rhetoric of ‘Can’t we all get along,’” Obama said. “That has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present.”
During an interview with conservative radio host Mark Levin, Scott said Obama failed to bring the country together on race relations.
“Mark, he missed a softball moving at slow speed with a big bat,” Scott said.
“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 also noted that “the one thing the far left does not want a Black person to be in this country is a conservative.”
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