Vice President Kamala Harris agreed with Scott on Thursday, however.
"First of all, no, I don't think America is a racist country, but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today," she said on ABC News, praising President Biden for addressing race issues. "It does not help to heal our country ... to ignore the realities of that."
"This is a neat trick," conservative A.G. Hamilton tweeted at Kendi. "Either you agree with this neoracist that everything is racist or you also get called a racist. Even if you are Tim Scott. Only complete fools would fall for this nonsense."