NAACP President Rips Black Sen. Tim Scott: He Does Not Believe In Civil Rights

Appearing on CNN Wednesday, the president of the NAACP slammed incoming black Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) as being a Republican who does not “believe in civil rights.”

When asked to evaluate the incoming class of congresspeople, including a diverse group of women, Hispanics, blacks, and Asians, Ben Jealous took the opportunity to bring up that Sen. Scott has an “F” score with the NAACP’s annual report card.

The NAACP head praised the fact that 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, we can once again say we have a black Senator, however, “there is nothing but room for him to improve.”

When asked by host Suzanne Malveaux why Scott so consistently receives an “F” score with the NAACP, Jealous explained that it’s not due to his political affiliation:

“We have Republicans who believe in civil rights — unfortunately he is not one of them. And unfortunately his party, as you know, has really gone after so-called RINOs, as they call them, these Republicans who believe in civil rights, again and again.”

Watch below, via CNN:

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