According to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, black men in America “wrongly perceive” police and that’s the real problem.
In response to the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, Graham had this to say: “I’ve come to believe that young black men rightly or wrongly perceive the police to be a threat when many times they’re not, and we’ve got to deal with that problem.”
Graham’s fellow South Carolina lawmaker, Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, called out the Republican senator while making an appearance on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” on Saturday morning.
“He is from Seneca, South Carolina,” said Clyburn. “I know the history of Seneca, South Carolina. Where has he been?”
“You know, I’ve been really interested, we had some foolishness the other day,” said Clyburn. “Drew Brees has gotten himself in some difficulty with his teammates, how his grandfather and father thought about anybody kneeling would be disrespecting the flag as if these, his teammates, did not have parents and grandparents who fought for this country and came back to this country with all kinds of indignities. One of which has just been written about in a great book from South Carolina. Isaac Woodard was in his uniform, coming home from the war, when he was stopped by a sheriff, a law enforcement officer who beat him, punched his eyes out with a night stick. That’s the thing that led Harry Truman to sign the executive order to integrate the armed services, because of the in indignities charged to a black man by a law enforcement officer, and that black man was in his uniform coming home from a war we had just won.”
“What in the world is Lindsey talking about? He needs to get in touch with his state,” continued Clyburn. “He’s demonstrated time and time again he is out of touch with South Carolina. He needs to get in touch with history, get in touch with where this country is, and do his part to help rectify that. Help repair it if you please. Continue to misrepresent facts and try to revise history — that to me is more than an insult.”
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