In the Republican response to President Biden’s address to Congress recently, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) rejected the president’s massive spending proposals that would grow the government and make Americans more dependent on Washington. Scott denounced, “Even more taxing, even more spending, to put Washington even more in the middle of your life — from the cradle to college.”
He also drove hard the point that the White House is not listening to science in regards to COVID protocols like the president promised he would. “Locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of their future. Our public schools should have opened months ago,” Scott said. “Other countries did. Private and religious schools did. Science has shown for months that schools are safe.”
Scott also pushed back on the president’s contention that systemic racism plagues the country, asserting that “America is not a racist country.”
Scott then spoke about his Christian faith and shared that growing up he was “blessed” with a “praying mom” and a “Chick-fil-A operator” that led to a “string of opportunities that are only possible here in America.”
Referencing the coronavirus pandemic, Scott touched on being a follower of Jesus. “Becoming a Christian transformed my life, but for months, too many churches were shutdown,” he said.
In the hope-filled address, Scott concluded with sharing what causes him to be “more than hopeful.”
“Original sin is never the end of the story. Not in our souls and not for our nation. The real story is always redemption,” he said. “I am standing here because my mom has prayed me through some really tough times. I believe our nation has succeeded the same way because generations of Americans in their own ways have asked for grace and God has supplied it.
Scott closed with lyrics from “The Blessing,” a worship song released in 2020 by Elevation Worship with Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes. He said it really help him through COVID. “The music is new, but the words draw from scripture,” he said.
“May the Lord bless you and keep you, make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May his presence go before you and behind you and beside you in your weeping and your rejoicing. He is for you. May his favor be upon our nation for a thousand generations and your family and your children and their children.”
You can tell how effective Sen. Scott’s speech was because the left was panicked enough to resort to their standard fallback: hurling racist slurs at a black man for daring not to think the way they tell him to.
The South Carolina lawmaker was attacked on social media and called an “Uncle Tim”. MSNBC host Tiffany Cross and many others in the liberal media also blasted Scott. Cross called Scott a “token” and suggested Harriet Tubman — the woman who helped rescue slaves on the “Underground Railroad” — would have left Scott behind.
Scott responded to this hateful attack by stating, “Intolerance so often comes from the left with words like ‘Uncle Tim’ and the ‘n-word’ being used against me. It is stunning in 2021 that those who speak about ending discrimination want to end it by more discrimination. I would recommend, then, that those who call themselves liberals and pride themselves on tolerance take a good, long look in the mirror before accusing others of racism.”