Politics sure makes strange bedfellows, they used to say. I’m unsure if the term strange can describe those bedfellows anymore.
Take Tim Scott the junior US Senator from South Carolina; Scott served as a Charleston city councilor, a state representative, and a U.S. Representative. Before entering politics, it was reported that Scott worked in the financial services sector.
In 2013, then Governor of South Carolina Nimarata Nikki Randhawa (o/c Nikki Haley) appointed Tim to fill a vacant US Senate seat. Scott was elected to a full six-year term in 2014 and was reelected to another in 2022.
Running for president is a thing a candidate feels, I would imagine; I wasn’t born in America, so I can’t say for sure as I do not satisfy the Constitutional requirements to run for president.……Oh, wait, Raphael Cruz was born in Canada, and he ran for President. So too did John McCain, born in the Panama Canal Zone. Anyway, I digress.
My initial point was that though Nimarata Nikki Randhawa is from South Carolina, and so is Scott, no one can argue that one should have waited for the other or not run because the other was running. Even though, if I were in Scott’s shoes, which I’m not, thank God, I would have considered what Nimarata Nikki Randhawa did for me, but that’s just me. I’m queasy like that when someone does something for me.
So Tim Scott and Nimarata Nikki Randhawa decided to run for president on the Republican ticket this presidential cycle. Tim Scott is as Black as they come, and Nimarata Nikki Randhawa is dark-skinned. Both grew up in the American South, which has been and remains the breeding ground of the most caustic and degenerative form of racism. Yet both Clowns decided that saying there is no racism in America was the way to be accepted by the virulent racists that dwell within the Republican party and represent the bulk of Republican voters.
Vivek Ramaswamy, another Indian-American running for president this cycle, adopted the same approach. Teeth grinning, glib, fast-talking, and argumentative, he believed that if he kissed enough white asses and spoke about how great America is, they would ignore his Black skin.….hahaha. It did not work. There is no racism in America(sic). Still, those Republican primary voters were not about to put a guy named Vivek Ramaswamy in the White House in the same way they would not put a woman named Nimarata Nikki Randhawa.
It is probably a good thing to be who you are. Barack Hussien Obama stayed true to his Muslim-sounding name and won twice. Oh, different political party? Yes, a coalition of progressives elected him, not a monolith of backward racists.
And even though there is no racism in America [sic], the brown-skinned people running for high office always ask the republican voters they are courting to look through them like glass and not focus on their dark skin.
Vivek could not change his name, but he raised hell and high water to convince everyone that America has no racism. Nimarata, well, she not only changed her name to Nikki and adopted her married name, Haley, but she went full-throttle into the no-racism American screed she convinced herself of. Tim Scott, his white-sounding name was not enough to get white Republican primary voters to ignore his black skin, and no amount of grinning and pretending would either.
Oh, Uncle Raphael isn’t running this cycle, but he never mentions that his name is Raphael; he is simply Ted.
Here is the question: why would Tim Scott not endorse Nimarata Nikki Randhawa, who in 2013 sent him to the US Senate? Nikki Haley is as fake as they come; the entire slate of candidates on the Republica ticket was like deceased rats. The question was which one had the most disease. When those opposed to Donald Trump held their breath that Chris Christie would gather some traction, you know the field was trash. If Chris Bridgegae, arrogant, pompous, narcissistic Christie, was the savior they sought, it indicated that we are all royally flushed.
Nevertheless, Tim grinning-teeth Scott owed Nimarata. Whoever she appointed to the US Senate would most likely have won a full term and been elected like Tim Scott was. South Carolina is a white Southern State that votes Republican monolithically.
Nimarata could have chosen any white man or woman, but she chose Scott. At the very least, Scott owed it to her to support her campaign after he folded his, even if he thought she would eventually lose.
But there is no honor among thieves, so Tim Scott endorsed the 91-felony count indicted, twice impeached, single-term insurrectionist who is again running for president to save himself from federal prison.
Not only did the c*****g Tim Scott endorse Donald Trump, but he also went out of his way to be extra in delivering his address. Many FOX News Republican viewers said they were embarrassed for him. The look on his dear leader’s face sums it up succinctly.
Who is this n****r?
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.