Donalds suggests Black families were stronger during Jim Crow era

Rep. Byron Donald (R-Fla.), speaking at a campaign event for former President Trump, suggested that black families were better off during the Jim Crow era.

The Donald, who is on the shortlist of Trump’s running mate, was campaigning for the former president in Philadelphia at a “Congress, Cognac and Cigars” event aimed at rallying support among black male voters. The Philadelphia Inquirer.

During the conversation, Donald said he is beginning to see a “reinvigoration” of the black family, adding that it is “fostering the resurgence of the black middle class in America.” According to the outlet, Donald also argued that the nuclear family (a family with a mother, father, and children living under the same roof) and its values ​​have been eroded by the Democratic Party and lost even among black voters who supported the Democratic Party after the civil rights movement.

“During the Jim Crow era, black families stayed together. During the Jim Crow era, more black people didn’t just become more conservative — black people have always been conservative in their thinking — but more of them voted conservatively,” Donald said.

The Hill has reached out to Donald’s office for clarification on his statement.

The Inquirer also noted that while the majority of attendees at the event were black, about half of the people who gave their addresses on the event entry form had addresses outside of Philadelphia.

The Biden campaign has slammed Trump’s efforts to mobilize black voters.

“Donald Trump has spent his entire adult life and his presidency undermining hard-fought progress in Black communities, which is why his campaign’s ‘Black outreach’ is geared toward white neighborhoods and promises to return America to the Jim Crow era,” Biden-Harris campaign spokeswoman Sarafina Chitica said in a statement.

Chitika said Trump and his campaign are signaling to black voters that they intend to take away their freedoms and economic opportunities.

“From promoting his own face to peddling fake sneakers, Trump and his campaign have shown black Americans how little they value them,” she said, adding that “this November, black voters will show them how little they value Trump, his allies and his racist policies.”

NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson told Donald Post to social platform X whether he was a member of Congress during the Jim Crow era;

“@ByronDonalds Do you think you could have gotten where you are under Jim Crow laws? I’m asking for other Black Americans,” Johnson said.

During the period Speech in the House of RepresentativesHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, also criticized the Florida Republican for “factually inaccurate statements.”

“That’s an outlandish, outrageous and unjustified opinion,” Jeffries said.

Democratic leaders argued that black communities were no better off when they were lynched, “brutally murdered,” sexually assaulted and denied education and voting rights with impunity.

“How dare you make such an ignorant observation,” he said. “You’d better examine yourself before you ruin yourself.”