A prominent NAACP official recognized Martin Luther King Day by
labeling black senator Tim Scott a puppet for the Republican party. “A
ventriloquist can always find a good dummy,” said Reverend William Barber II, the president of North Carolina’s NAACP chapter.
The State reports that Barber’s
remarks came in a speech in Scott’s home state of South Carolina. “The
extreme right wing down here,” he said, “finds a black guy to be senator
and claims he’s the first black senator since Reconstruction and then
he goes to Washington, D.C., and articulates the agenda of the Tea
Party.”
Last
year, Barber gained national attention leading the “Moral Monday”
protests in opposition to North Carolina’s Republican governor, Pat McCrory.
Scott
is the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction. He
dismissed Barber’s remarks as ”baseless and meaningless rhetoric.”
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
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