Tim Scott, and the Republican Party’s Vexed Relationship with Race
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The South Carolina senator Tim Scott likes to point to himself as an example of racial progress in America. But in a recent story for The New Yorker, Robert Samuels looked into Scott’s personal story—in many ways a messier tale than the one he tells—and into the ways that the “concave mirror shaped by his own experience” distorts Scott’s view of politics. Samuels joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Scott’s Presidential run, and what he reveals about the Republican Party’s relationship to race and racism.
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| 1:15.6 | contender against Donald Trump. What do you find interesting about him? Why did you decide to write a |
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