Republican senator and presidential candidate Tim Scott says the racist ads attacking Kentucky Republican Daniel Cameron as an “Uncle Tom” are the “epitome of racism,” and says the silence of his Democrat opponent Andy Beshear is “despicable.”
The ads from a liberal Super PAC funded by billionaire George Soros call into question whether Cameron, the first black attorney general in Kentucky history, is truly a friend of the black community. The ad from Black Voters Matters PAC refers to Cameron as “Uncle Daniel Cameron,” and uses the saying, “Skinfolk ain’t kinfolk” — a refrain used by black liberals to suggest that anyone who disagrees with them politically is a race traitor.
Scott, who in 2014 became the first black senator elected in the south since reconstruction, said Beshear, Kentucky’s sitting governor, has a duty to stand up to the overt racism in his state.
“Why in the world would the governor of a state with the type of diversity he has, with the mantle the people have given him, remain silent?” Scott said in an interview with The Daily Wire. “For one reason: Power. Unless it’s that he just authentically believes it all.”