Rep. Byron Donalds draws backlash for expressing nostalgia for Jim Crow era during Philly event

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Democrats accused Donalds of praising Jim Crow-era policies. We have a recording of what he said.

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds speaks during a "Congress, Cognac and Cigars" at The Cigar Code in Philadelphia.U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds has come under fire for comments he made about the Jim Crow era of racial segregation during an event in Philadelphia on Tuesday., came during a “Congress, Cognac, and Cigars” event featuring Donalds and U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt .

He did not discuss the Jim Crow-era policies that enabled disenfranchisement and segregation. Instead, he made an argument that the increase in single-parent households in the Black community resulted from the vast expansion of the social safety net immediately following Jim Crow in the mid-1960s. The debate following Donalds’ comments focused on whether he praised Jim Crow, with Democrats like Biden spokesperson Sarafina Chitika saying Trump and his allies are “promising to take America back to Jim Crow.”

 

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