Why idealize the Black family under Jim Crow oppression? GOP Rep. Byron Donalds responds to Joy Reid

Donald Trump surrogate Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) responds to saying “during Jim Crow the Black family was together” during a Tuesday Black voter outreach event for the former president, suggesting that Jim Crow had positive aspects despite it being a time of brutal social and political oppression for African-Americans. Rep. Donalds joins Joy Reid to discuss the backlash.



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[lastmanstanding]

Under Jim Crow he wouldn't be in the position his in!

[injusticeanywhere]

He suggested Jim Crow was an era where black families were good. Now he's trying to back peddle. Prime example of how far some black males will go to please Trump and the R's.

[jumpersclerk]

The overall point of kids do better with both a mom and dad… and society is better with a family unit is 100% correct.

[Tankal]

They also leave out that those families raised the kids who turned out to be civil rights leaders revered by all today

[BlackandProud]

Whoever told Byron to go on Joy's show needs to be fired because he got embarrassed.

[m.rashaadbarnett]

As a black man, this is disgusting and disheartening.

[rickydfcc]

Anytime a Black Man reminisces positively about Jim Crow, there is a fundamental factual disconnect.

[youngone]

He used Jim crow as a reference to contrast how horrible it was for blacks, yet blacks still held families together.

[thelegacygroup]

It's like saying that during slavery no black person was out of work.

[Glenetteblessed]

As a mother, black mother who is 59 years old with 9 grandchildren I would never vote for this republican party. They are in no way advocating or even discussing anything that would be positive for me or my family

[baarons]

Lawd, you can tell the kinda audience this is. Everyone is so hung up on the fact that he mentioned Jim Crow, they can't get the basic point. He was saying that in a DARK time in black history, we were together. So if we could be together in our darkest time, we should certainly be together now. All folks can care about is that he mentioned it. Its TRUE. As a matter of fact, because of the strength of the black family, black men & boys were *intentionally* targeted, in order to sew the seeds. the yeah, the man in the home disempowered BECAUSE his role had power to begin with. This is why the left keeps losing the black population, the obsession with seeing us through the lens of suffering & being disgusted by black positivity in our history. This was gross to watch & it broke my heart.

[dakingceasar]

Yall know what he meant. Stop the stupid stuff man.

[leonwilson]

I'm 78 and lived with Jim Crow: refused the use of a restroom when my Grandmother was trying to buy me a suit, got evil stares form white people during a stops in Virginia, had to wait in colored waiting rooms at interstate Greyhound and Trailways bus stations, was told to go in the back door of white persons homes, was told to say sir to white people younger than me, went to segregated schools that passed down used school books. Some homes had fathers in the homes. Not all homes had fathers present. I experienced Jim Crow and congressman until you've lived with it study and get the facts straight. You said it was better then and you were born after that era.

[lynettewright-house]

All he needed to say was he used the wrong example!

[JM-cpti]

This is so pathetic & sad! And a missed opportunity for radical Joy to discuss the negative effects of 66% of black children being born to SINGLE mothers - which the welfare system & liberal Govt has fostered & exploited!!!
Statistics DO NOT lie!
Byron Donald’s is saying that EVEN in the worst of times the black family (parents) remained together.

[LokiPokey]

He said they voted more consersvatively during Jim Crow. Huge problem with that argument...African American citizens were NOT ALLOWED to vote in the South.

[derekstribling]

why can't people just admit that they were wrong and apologize?

[michellebranch]

GIRL YOU DID THAT! Don’t say Jim Crow associating ANYTHING GOOD FOR BLACK PERIOD PERIOD

This person is too ignorant and void of both logic and common sense to realize the point he's making that has nothing to do with the era or conditions. She lacks the wisdom to understand the benefits and blessings that having both a father and a mother in a household has throughout history been the ideal environment for raising children and building a strong and sound family. She is also unaware that it is the proper order and the foundation for social order and the building of a civil society.

[perrywalton]

He thought nobody would check his nonsense. He needs to read more books.