Sen. Tim Scott tells pastor on justice reform: ‘I look for a God solution’
By: Caleb Parke
Senator Tim Scott is right on. His way of dealing with race relations and law enforcement is exactly the right way to do so. I love that he sees Gods role in bringing healing to our nation. He is the key to healing, unity, forgiveness, and personal growth
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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. spoke to California megachurch Pastor Greg Laurie on Sunday about racial reconciliation following the death of George Floyd .
Laurie, pastor and founder of the Harvest churches in California and Hawaii and of Harvest Crusades, asked Scott about his Just and Unifying Solutions To Invigorate Communities Everywhere (Justice) Act of 2020 before it was unveiled before the Senate this week.
“I believe God has established law enforcement. I believe racism is a real problem in our country. And I think we need to talk about it. And I don't know why you have to be in one camp or the other,” said Laurie.
Scott responded, “I can be pro-law enforcement and pro-communities of color. You can be both."
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks during a Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship hearing to examine implementation of Title I of the CARES Act, June 10, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP)
About his faith, Scott added, "I don't mean to be overly religious, because in my opinion, this is not about religion ... as a born again believer, I'm driven by the gospel of Jesus Christ, so I don't look for a black solution or a white solution or a blue solution. I look for a God solution."
Scott's Justice Act is a response to incidents including the death of George Floyd while in police custody on May 25. The bill includes changes to police procedures and accountability with an enhanced use-of-force database, restrictions on chokeholds, and new commissions to study law enforcement and race.
The Justice Act also includes a provision that would make lynching a federal hate crime. It would call for a study on the social status of black males, which has been supported by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
On Wednesday, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was forced to apologize to the lone black GOP senator for calling his bill "a token, half-hearted approach."
Earlier in the day, Scott responded to Durbin's comments by referring to congressional Democrats last week wearing African kente cloths while they unveiled their own version of police reform. Critics accused them of cultural appropriation.
“Y’all still wearing those kente cloths over there @SenatorDurbin?” Scott wrote on Twitter.
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Unbelievable. A bunch of Democratic congressional posers dress up in African cloth they don't understand and tell themselves they did something useful.
Then an actual black legislator introduces real legislation addressing the actual issues and they call it token. What we needed, apparently, was for some white senator from Illinois to whitesplain the problem to "the help."
Those republican biases (which are thought to not exist), well, are showing in plain sight. Being a lone black senator who is republican makes Mr. Scott many thing good and mediocre - after all he did vote in lockstep with a roster of republicans/conservatives to acquit this president during his impeachment hearings despite the evidence (which is still mounting aside of the senate trial) to the contrary.
Democrats are not mandated to listen to a damn thing ("an actual black legislator introduces") simply because he things he knows about the plight of his people. They are right to look Senator Scott in his eye and question if he has dealt with the issues, dilemmas, and complexities of rank and file black male police justice priorities or not! If yes - say so, if no - say no! While Senator Scott has a first amendment right (and a job) to do to put forward a bill, the democrats, like his senate colleagues, have a right to IGNORE his bill too! If, they judge, it does not go far enough.
So is he a mediocre senator? Or is he a mediocre black man for being a good Republican? Just want to see if you'll be calling him a token as well.
If you were just asking me what I think, I would tend to agree. However, I am going to require that Democrats be held to the same bullshit standard they demand of everyone else. Men are told explicitly be silent on issues that effect women. White people are told explicitly to be silent on issues impacting black people. This is the same standard.
If you're honest, you will admit that if the parties of these two men were reversed, there would be a national freakout from Democrats and mainstream media about the Republican white senator calling the black senator's effort "token." You better believe that we'd be hearing all about racism, dog whistles, and whitesplaining. Absofrickinlutely we would!
Being a lone black senator who is republican makes Mr. Scott many things good and mediocre - after all he did vote in lockstep with a roster of republicans/conservatives to acquit this president during his impeachment hearings despite the evidence (which is still mounting aside of the senate trial) to the contrary.
Did I s-stutter? Does that specific vote make him "good" or "mediocre" or both? Comment on the comment this time, please.
So speak to whether or not the sole black republican met with and discussed his "justice act" bill proposals with the two democratic black senators! BTW, Senator Scott (or at least the president's attorney (Jay Sekulow and his American Center for Law and Justice)) is gearing up a "phone campaign" to attempt compelling (not a good 'ask') perceived as vulnerable senate democrats to vote for closure to get the "act" further along in the Senate.
Please proceed. . . .
And that causes me angst how again? Let them negotiate in earnest. It is what we pay them to do anyway!
Senator Durbin used the appropriate word since he was making an impact comparison statement about the democratic bill and the Senate bill. However, yes, he could have used a different word and avoided the double entendre. So Senator Durbin deserves the heat he got (and may get) about the loaded word.
I did comment on your comment. You chose to hide from the very direct question I asked you about your comment. I suppose even that, in itself, is an answer, isn't it.
Why? Does he need permission from the liberal black senators before he can get the approval of his white masters? I am just really curious as to why this particular senator needs so much special handling.
Now this may surprise you, but I agree with that. I believe Mr. Durbin meant nothing racial by it, and I do not approve of Senator Scott giving him a hard time for it. I think Senator Scott was playing the game Democrats play all the time. I don't think he honestly thought he was being called a token.
However, it has shone a bit of a light on the fact that Mr. Scott's presence as a Republican senator vexes Democrats because they think they should own all black people when it comes to politics. I think it's a kind of racism when they automatically disrespect and dismiss conservative black voices.
The way forward for productive legislation should go through Senator Scott because it is the path to bipartisanship. If the legislation is Democrats-only it won't go anywhere. In fact, I anticipate Democrats filling the legislation with poison pills to guarantee it won't go anywhere. Then they will cry in outrage that Republicans hate black people so they can win more votes. It's never about actually helping people.
I don't know much about Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina. He is not a republican stand out in the Senate, in my opinion. In this regard he is 'notable' that he does not stand out from the pact of republicans who agree with this republican president 99.99 percent of the time. And President Donald Trump is a boorish leader who puts his congressional senators and housmembers, his 'underlinks' in the White House, his surrogates, and his pervasive set of supporters under his 'feet' where he thinks they belong.
Now remind me again: Just how free is any black or white republican politician who can't disagree with the party leader without threat of voter disenfranchisement? And most surely that black or white individual will be compelled to abandon the Republican Party. Stop telling untruths about Trump giving republicans more liberties Trump gives republicans measured does of fear and dread as often as needed!
So many words. . . .
Here is the task @2.1.4:
So speak to whether or not the sole black republican met with and discussed his "justice act" bill proposals with the two democratic black senators!
(You might even modify your statement to read, the path to legislation on police reform in the Senate, comparing similar things, is through the three black senators. Is that what you mean?)
You wanted to compare similar things. Well? Please proceed.
Again I have responded specifically to your comment but because you don't like my reply (or apparently can't be bothered to read it) you want to pretend I haven't responded. Sorry, but my comments stand. I suggest you read them.
Explain this. Mr. Scott is hardly anybody to make people jealous . I mean it is not like he is Majority Leader! Is he even a republican committee 'chair'? Rising up from obscurity maybe?
And again, democrats don't have to own anybody; the republican party keeps raising up tired, old, meddlesome, bothersome, backwards-ass 'troll' policies that offend the unalienable rights of free citizens enshrined in our constitution. It is clear to me: Many of you republicans, simply hate liberals for our freedoms and our diversity.
I don't think any, or at least many, conservatives "hate" liberals for their freedoms and diversity. It's the simple fact that you flaunt said diversity at every turn and use it for virtue signaling. Period. That's akin to those who use the "I have many black friends" to justify their "worldly" view. That's not necessarily a good thing.
Yeah, it makes it even more pathetic, doesn't it? But he's black and he's conservative, so he must be discredited at every possible opportunity, lest other black citizens start listening to him and - horrors! - vote for even more black conservatives.
I tend to agree. But their social conservatism has become permanently attached to policy-making and thus, classic liberalism - which they should be championing - is sometimes forgotten.
Your own tendency toward prejudice leads you to stereotype. I am not a Republican. Furthermore, just calling Democrats "liberal" doesn't make them so. Anyone who loves to see the power of big government wielded to solve all problems, or speech repressed - the way so many modern Democrats do - is not exercising a liberal philosophy.
What goes on today in the Democrat party is not liberalism. It's big government control, and pandering for votes. The party pretends to care about everyone's little problems so they can get people to vote for them. It's their biggest advantage over the Republicans. They are better at appearing to be outraged on behalf of other people. It might get votes, but it's otherwise useless.
Too often, they don't actually get around to solving the problems they claim to care about so much. If they did, this black conservative wouldn't even be in a position to be talking about police reforms in Democratic cities. For that matter, Trump wouldn't have been in a position to make federal prison reforms. All these Democrats, like Biden and Clinton wouldn't be out there apologizing for crime legislation they wrote.
So very little to work with there. . . .
Which is it "any" or "many" because there is a dichotomy: There are not "any" conservatives that hate "any" liberal freedoms and diversity? Or, is there "many" conservatives that do hate liberals freedoms and diversity? Additionally, is "flaunting diversity" an undesirable thing?
I need a follow-up comment to solve this one.
I have many white friends. For reals. White people are ordinary people to me. We make each other better or else we kick each other to the 'curb.' It's not a big deal that we stay together for years or we move on to see other people. No problem.
To be clear, it was "I don't think any, or at least many, conservatives". Switch the two. There aren't any OR there aren't at least many. Sorry for your confusion.
You have "eyes" for Trump 'character.'
You love having conservatives who toe the line and with that in mind, Trump conservatives keep giving those other conservatives the heave ho over the side. Why Trump is now mocking some of his chosen 'fossils' for high positions, simply because they could not take the delusion-solution in large doses anymore!
Whatever your affiliations are is irrelevant, especially since you have a keyboard and could clear up any damn miscommunication you are inclined to do (at your leisure).
Well if you don't want all out warfare on your hands—negotiate. The union is all and all. Though I have heard a "vaulted" conservative named Walter Williams deny that. He says, the states are all and all. That liberty means if any of the states don't like the contract any more it can simply leave this union. Now that is some liberty indeed! Tell me, is your "small governments" ideology inclusive of arriving and departing states?
No comment on the remainder. I generally don't accept democratic party and liberal advice from republicans and conservatives. Er, agendas.
Propaganda. Good for conservativism, I guess. Trump was given "another look" in 2016. That look gave America coronavirus disease and deaths up the a. . . . Oh,
How about that border wall, conservatives swore Trump would erect from sea to shining sea across Mexico with a really 'nice' door? Promises unkept!
You can have all the black people you can stuff into your party if lying to people (for votes) is their thing!
Delusional. It kind of reminds me of the articles in the 2014-16 period that the republican party was dead, but as you can see the lying Republican President and his cohorts are in charge of everything right now. Such articles are hogwash.
Black people could give a damn about Trump and his 'forked tongue.' As for 'roaring economy' well he caused it to tank. Still, in the words of Reverend Jesse Jackson: "Keep hope alive!"
I won't bother with propaganda. A percentage of people can be enough to create buzz. I am glad there are black republicans out and about. The Question of the Day:
Will black republicans insist on telling the truth to a significant degree better than it is being displayed by this republican president today?
If not, then they too become part of the problem to be rid of.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
Excuse me, HA you make it abundantly clear you are a partisan hack. That means, I would be a fool to follow you around purposely looking for both sides to a story. That means if you have vetted a story, it is for its "trumpian influence" more or less. Mostly more.
Therefore, I am not interested in spending time on one-sided accounts which will need fact-checking, spin-reduction, and generally an 'eye-roll' or two or three throughout the interaction. (Smile.)
Well, there is the matter of 'at the expense of the conservative reputation, ill-repute, and lying, cheating, and theft of the unalienable rights of other citizens of the country. President Donald Trump and Trump supporters have no daylight betwixt themselves. With every sentence you write in support of what Donald Trump is doing to the country; you are doing it to the country to the same degree.
Any black conservatives who, I stipulate, are foolish enough to choose power over the proper insertion of unalienable rights of all people can go to h—, in my opinion.
Why didnt God prevent the killing in the Wendy's parking lot last week ? There are no "God solutions".
Without false grace the damn gop would be Grace Free!
It really is disgraceful too! I mean Trump conservatives want the citizenry to ignore the sciences, its very methodologies told us we are about to get sick in the millions and die in the hundreds of thousands from an invisible foe. Now Trump and his "conservatives" protest and march against science. They seem to think sticking out their shoulders and puffing up their cheeks and 'aping' courage can impress one of nature's viruses.
President Donald Trump is killing people and doing so deliberately! He is symbolically standing on Fifth Avenue and shooting people full of Coronavirus and nobody from among his followers is volunteering to stop him! No Grace!
It's really disgraceful, how the "Democrats" ignore the "Sciences", and cheer on protestors to huddle together and protest, as W.H.O., the CDC and Dr. Fauci say it's a "Bad Idea".
How many days have the Nutz in the streets been putting people at risk, and IGNORING Science so far ?
Proverbial apples and oranges (as established early on above). Let's make this simple. Enough. The in-door rally is today. I hope you attend it. Ta-ta. Good luck with that! (Smile.)
No further discussion needed.
I understand. "Reality" really is hard to respond to.
Good Luck in your "Lollipop and Gumdrop" Gardening ! They're melting right now !
Yawning. Don't you have a big "Protest" to go to; watch; or make an appearance? What are you doing in here? Get going!
A God solution? If God has not solved this by now, he isn't going to. God gave man free will and it is up to man to use that will and solve the problem himself.
On the positive side of politics, maybe Senator Scott is happy to have his party and its leader supporting the 'thawing' of this political glacier. Of course, the rank and file black citizenry are sick and tired of being sick and tired (of their children receiving street justice) of the distress and strain of watching their children die by the hands of those promising to protect and serve them. Senator Scott has the luxury of waiting a few more years. It is called getting "mileage."
Let's just say I'm skeptical. What's a few more authoritarian cop feet on necks, and bullet holes in black male bodies anyway? Adornments?
"Lefties" don't like "States Rights" !
Well.....until they get "Selfish" !
"Toke" ?
No further comment needed.
For every bad cop, there are a 1000 good ones. Point in case that happened here recently. An off duty K9 officer used his 100 ft dog lead to repel down a cliff to rescue twins and their father, who had intentionally driven off that cliff and into the ocean.
Nobody with any commonsense would put down all cops, anymore than any honest person would consider the phrase, "Black Lives Matter" meant to draw attention to the plight of black males and females dying at the hands of police is meant to disparage all police. Remember, police come in all shapes, sizes, and races too! However, to speak on one problem area is needed and encouraged. (Smile.)
I penned this about it early on-on a different article:
That in itself is my illustration that I recognize the good in police as an organization. They are good to me, in a real sense. I have only been man-handled by police once and I won't bother to describe it here (as it would bias the point here), and it did not end in any way, shape, or form as a tragedy.
This cop is a true hero.
More than people realize. Those cops aren't there for pats on the back. They are there and do what they do because that is what they do.