For years, Tim Scott prioritized efforts to expand access to capital for minority businesses. Trump crushed it in months. (1 Viewer)

[CaughtInThe]

There's a term for men like Scott. It's right on the tip of my tongue.



“They are watching this happen, and they are doing nothing. That’s cowardice. And it cuts especially deep when the people you once believed were your champions turn their backs in silence,” the Commerce Department employee said of Scott’s and other Republicans’ silence on cuts to the program.

Scott campaigned for Trump and at one point was vying to run as his 2024 vice presidential pick. His silence underscores the fine line he and other Black conservatives have to walk between their own interests and loyalty to the party as the administration wages a broader war against the government’s diversity-focused initiatives."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/scott-stays-silent-as-his-minority-business-legacy-crumbles-under-trump-00300868

 

[CaughtInThe]

 

[Greenbeard]

Scott, along with other Republicans, was integral to congressional efforts to permanently authorize the Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency, expand its services into rural areas and leverage the program to help minority-owned businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sorry, Tim, nothing with the word "minority" in it was ever going to survive this administration. Acknowledging Jackie Robinson's military service is too woke for the grand dragons making policy now.

 

[Parrish]

MASSA. Making Americans Segregationists Again.

 

[Stealers Wheel]

The House N-word knows his place. If Massa wants to stop helping colored folks git ahead, well, that's jus da way it got to be.

 

[Cosmo]

MASSA. Making Americans Segregationists Again.

Just the opposite: they're making opportunity equal again, without having the government give handouts based on race and gender.

 

[Questerr]

Just the opposite: they're making opportunity equal again, without having the government give handouts based on race and gender.

 

[Cosmo]

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In what imaginary world are American slaves still alive?

 

[Girlpower]

There's a term for men like Scott. It's right on the tip of my tongue.



“They are watching this happen, and they are doing nothing. That’s cowardice. And it cuts especially deep when the people you once believed were your champions turn their backs in silence,” the Commerce Department employee said of Scott’s and other Republicans’ silence on cuts to the program.

Scott campaigned for Trump and at one point was vying to run as his 2024 vice presidential pick. His silence underscores the fine line he and other Black conservatives have to walk between their own interests and loyalty to the party as the administration wages a broader war against the government’s diversity-focused initiatives."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/scott-stays-silent-as-his-minority-business-legacy-crumbles-under-trump-00300868

Support for racist policies needs to go regardless of what party it is.

 

[Questerr]

In what imaginary world are American slaves still alive?

You clearly don’t get the comic.

For 2 centuries, the US had policies that blatantly favored whites and gave them huge advantages over non-whites.

But now that there are a handful of really weak programs to give non-whites the tiniest boost to try and reach the same level as whites, conservatives want to scream “Reverse Racism!”

 

[Cosmo]

You clearly don’t get the comic.

For 2 centuries, the US had policies that blatantly favored whites and gave them huge advantages over non-whites.

But now that there are a handful of really weak programs to give non-whites the tiniest boost to try and reach the same level as whites, conservatives want to scream “Reverse Racism!”

The comic is obviously about American slavery, which ended over 150 years ago. Most of what was present in the American South before the Civil War was destroyed and whatever was left that could be attributed to slave labor would have long ago become obsolete and useless. So there's generally no such white guy on top of the world because of the black guy he left on the bottom 200 years ago to any non-trivial extent, and therefore nothing to remedy. It's a myth to fool gullible leftist whites into hating themselves.

And if your mythical black slave that's still alive wants reparations, he can sue the dead Africans that enslaved him and sold him to the slave traders.

 

[Questerr]

The comic is obviously about American slavery, which ended over 150 years ago. Most of what was present in the American South before the Civil War was destroyed and whatever was left that could be attributed to slave labor would have long ago become obsolete and useless. So there's generally no such white guy on top of the world because of the black guy he left on the bottom 200 years ago to any non-trivial extent, and therefore nothing to remedy. It's a myth to fool gullible leftist whites into hating themselves.

And if your mythical black slave that's still alive wants reparations, he can sue the dead Africans that enslaved him and sold him to the slave traders.

It’s not just about slavery. You don’t think the century of Jim Crow afterwards harmed black people while privileging whites?

 

[Cosmo]

It’s not just about slavery.

Yes, that's literally what the cartoon you posted is about.

You don’t think the century of Jim Crow afterwards harmed black people while privileging whites?

Some white people drank from the white water fountain and were "privileged" by this 60 years ago warranting some sort of government-enforced backsie today? That's your new argument?

 

[bongsaway]

Just the opposite: they're making opportunity equal again, without having the government give handouts based on race and gender.

Equal by hiring a bunch of highly unqualified people? Fox news host is the secretary of defense? Dr. Oz, RFK...seriously dude?

 

[Questerr]

Yes, that's literally what the cartoon you posted is about.

Some white people drank from the white water fountain and were "privileged" by this 60 years ago warranting some sort of government-enforced backsie today? That's your new argument?

You think Jim Crow was limited to water fountains? You are either wildly ignorant or deliberately dishonest. Which is it?

 

[CaughtInThe]

Equal by hiring a bunch of highly unqualified people? Fox news host is the secretary of defense? Dr. Oz, RFK...seriously dude?

There has to be really qualified minority military people and really qualified minority scientists that are laughing/depressed at the same time.

 

[Cosmo]

Equal by hiring a bunch of highly unqualified people? Fox news host is the secretary of defense? Dr. Oz, RFK...seriously dude?

By not hiring people based on race/mental illness.

 

[Cosmo]

You think Jim Crow was limited to water fountains? You are either wildly ignorant or deliberately dishonest. Which is it?

Is that what you usually ask when you come up empty-handed with your retort?

 

[Questerr]

Is that what you usually ask when you come up empty-handed with your retort?

I'm hardly "empty handed" but you hold the idiotic position that Jim Crow was limited to segregated water fountains.

 

[Cosmo]

I'm hardly "empty handed" but you hold the idiotic position that Jim Crow was limited to segregated water fountains.

So what do I as a white person have because of whatever you're talking about that I owe to the black person?

 

[Questerr]

So what do I as a white person have because of whatever you're talking about that I owe to the black person?

A infinitely higher chance at generational wealth.

 

[Cosmo]

A infinitely higher chance at generational wealth.

I don't get my wealth at the slot machine. I get it at work, and my work has nothing to do with black people as a group. Try again.

 

[Questerr]

I don't get my wealth at the slot machine. I get it at work, and my work has nothing to do with black people as a group. Try again.

Your family never inherited any property from their parents or grandparents?

 

[Cosmo]

Your family never inherited any property from their parents or grandparents?

Not in the United States (that I can point to). My grandparents died penniless, and my parents didn't die yet. I don't know if some relative at some distant point in the past (perhaps before there even was a USA) inherited something at some point. I can't trace my lineage that far back, and don't care to.

 

[Questerr]

Not in the United States.

Cool. Good for you. You’re a first generation immigrant from where?

White people in the US still have an exponentially higher chance of having inherited wealth than non-whites.