Obama Rips Tim Scott’s Comments About Race, Accuses Him of Pretending ‘Everything’s Equal’

Former President Barack Obama (D) is taking issue with Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) comments about race in the United States.

Obama sat down for an interview with CNN’s David Axelrod on his podcast “The Axe Files.”

“I’m not being cynical about 👤Tim Scott individually. I am maybe suggesting that the rhetoric of ‘can’t we all get along?’ – and those quotes you made about, you know, from my speech in 2004 about there’s a ‘United States of America’ – that has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present,” the former president said.

He continued:

“If a Republican who may even be sincere in saying ‘I want us all to live together’ doesn’t have a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in this society… If somebody is not proposing, both acknowledging and proposing elements that say, ‘No, we can’t just ignore all that and pretend as if everything’s equal and fair.’… If they’re not doing that, then I think people are rightly skeptical.”

Listen to his comments below:

Scott has argued the U.S. is not a racist country.

During his 2024 presidential campaign launch, he highlighted his own story as he said, “We live in the land where it is absolutely possible for a kid raised in poverty, in a single-parent household, in a small apartment to one day serve in the People’s House, and maybe even the White House.”