Lone Black Senator Insists Country Not Racist — It Must Be True

Tim Scott, a Republican senator from South Carolina, delivers the rebuttal to Joe Biden’s speech. Photograph: AP

Does anyone besides me find ironic the speech of Republican Senator Tim Scott, the only black Senator of 100, in his rebuttal to President Biden’s address to Congress on Wednesday night, in which he emphatically stated that America is not racist? Amazingly, he said this after listing several ways he has been discriminated against (which is the very definition of ”racism”).