Tim Scott’s only crime, wandering off the Democratic plantation.
Via Daily Caller:
On the eve of Martin Luther King Day, the president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP denounced conservatives and denigrated one of the U.S. Senate’s two black senators.
“A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy,” Rev. William Barber II said of South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott, according to South Carolina’s The State. “[T]he extreme right wing down here (in South Carolina) 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.”
Barber, who has made a name for himself protesting Republican initiatives in North Carolina with his “Moral Monday” rallies, also told the crowd of 300 at Zion Baptist Church in downtown Columbia, South Carolina that voting, health care, the environment and education “are moral issues, faith issues.” Pastors who obsess on prayer, homosexuality and abortion while ignoring social justice issues are “just running their mouths,” he said.