new curriculum, by eddie, we ve got a fellow candidate in senator tim scott saying there s no silver lining to slavery. and calling desantis s stance a hot mess on a podcast with the new hampshire journal. what do you make of the fact that desantis and the florida gop can just, you know, casually whitewash black history? and the only people that are coming to the defense of people that need to be defended, it s just tim scott at this point? well, yeah. it actually reflects, i, think it kind of falsity and bargain. it s been at the heart of the republican party for 40 years, the kinds of dance with its racist, nativist, base. those dixiecrats that migrated into the republican party. they are constantly appealing to them. in some, ways they have metastasized and over on the party in some ways. so tim scott, it makes sense that tim scott would be the lone voice here.
with barack obama, christiane amanpour sat down with him in athens to get his thoughts on the state of democracy and the 2024 election. they also talked about the recent criticism of his comments on race from gop presidential candidates senator tim scott and nikki haley. he declined to respond to them, but said this about race in america. i think race has always been the faultline in america. life in american politics, that is not original to me, i think any observer of america would say that. i am, by the way, that is not historically been a one-sided, partisan issue. my favorite president, abraham lincoln, he did an awful lot to advance the cause of freedom and conversely the democratic party was where the dixiecrats resisted civil rights and
occupy their time. i think grace has always been a default line in america. life in american politics. that s not original to me, i think any observer of america would see that. and i, and by the, way that historically is not sort of a one-sided partisan issue. my favorite president, abraham lincoln did an awful lot to advance the cause of freedom. and the democratic party was where the dixiecrats resisted civil rights and progress for years. and opposed jim crow so it is something that america has had to grapple with for centuries. i think that we have made real progress and although i was always skeptical that by
by the way, that historically has not been a one-sided partisan issue. my favorite president, abraham lincoln, did an awful lot to advance the cause of freedom and conversely, the democratic party was where the dixiecrats resisted civil rights and progress for years and imposed jim cow. so it is something that america has had to grapple with for centuries. i think we have made real progress, although i was always skeptical my election somehow signified a post racial america. if you look at any speech i gave throughout my presidency, i was always someone who reminded the country of the progress that was possible. that was my brand, right? that s part of the hope and change thing, but what i ve