"America, Joe Biden's campaign is lying to you once again and gaslighting," Donalds said Wednesday in a
posted on X. "Now they're trying to say that I said Black people were doing better under Jim Crow. I never said that. They are lying. But why would you be surprised? Because they always lie. This is the same Joe Biden that said if you don't vote for him, then you ain't Black. The man is a liar."
The Biden-Harris HQ account on X : "Trump VP contender Byron Donalds claims life was better for Black Americans 'during Jim Crow,'" with a video of Donalds saying, "You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — Black people always have been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively. Then HEW [the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare], Lyndon Johnson, and you go down that road and now we are where we are."
But it was just a portion of what Donalds said overall at a campaign stop in Philadelphia regarding a burgeoning middle class among Black families in the past 10 years. He never said they were better off under Jim Crow — discrimination laws created by Southern Democrats in the late 1800s that relegated Black people to second-class status — but that things got worse under the welfare state created by Democrats and President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s.
"What I said was is that you had more Black families under Jim Crow, and it was the Democrat policies under HEW, under the welfare state that did help to destroy the Black family," Donalds said in the video. "That's what I said. And I also said you've seen a reinvigoration of Black families today in America. And that is a good thing. So don't listen to the lies of the Biden administration."
In a he posted on X of his comments at the campaign event, Donalds talked about how growing up, he wanted "to be a father to my sons." He then observed a cultural and political shift regarding the invigoration of Black families.
"That is also helping to breed the revival of a Black middle class in America," Donalds said, before his comments about Jim Crow.https://www.newsmax.com/politics/byron-donalds-biden-hakeem-jeffries/2024/06/05/id/1167640/
The Biden-Harris HQ account on X : "Trump VP contender Byron Donalds claims life was better for Black Americans 'during Jim Crow,'" with a video of Donalds saying, "You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — Black people always have been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively. Then HEW [the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare], Lyndon Johnson, and you go down that road and now we are where we are."
But it was just a portion of what Donalds said overall at a campaign stop in Philadelphia regarding a burgeoning middle class among Black families in the past 10 years. He never said they were better off under Jim Crow — discrimination laws created by Southern Democrats in the late 1800s that relegated Black people to second-class status — but that things got worse under the welfare state created by Democrats and President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s.
"What I said was is that you had more Black families under Jim Crow, and it was the Democrat policies under HEW, under the welfare state that did help to destroy the Black family," Donalds said in the video. "That's what I said. And I also said you've seen a reinvigoration of Black families today in America. And that is a good thing. So don't listen to the lies of the Biden administration."
In a he posted on X of his comments at the campaign event, Donalds talked about how growing up, he wanted "to be a father to my sons." He then observed a cultural and political shift regarding the invigoration of Black families.
"That is also helping to breed the revival of a Black middle class in America," Donalds said, before his comments about Jim Crow.https://www.newsmax.com/politics/byron-donalds-biden-hakeem-jeffries/2024/06/05/id/1167640/
