On Monday, September 26 we visited the office of
Congressman Tim Scott. Mr. Scott is a Republican, who had been elected to
Congress in November 2010. He is the first Republican African-American
Representative from the South since Reconstruction, besides A.West of Florida. Unfortunately
he himself wasn’t there, but we had the chance to talk to his chief of office
Kathy Crawford. She informed us about his strong conservative; fiscal, pro- business
policy, his effort to promote cutting on government spending especially in the branch
of social programs like medical care and funding of NGO’s and at the same time
lowering the tax rate. We discussed with Mrs. Crawford the emphasize on moral
issues like belief and marriage in respective of his opposition to gay-marriage.
Unfortunately Mrs. Crawford was not in the position to answer all our
questions. But it clearly gave a very different approach to what we have heard
and seen about Afro- Americans in the US-South so far. Statements like the
Afro-Americans have to overcome obstacles themselves in order to not be
marginalized leaved our group with resentments. Tim Scott is very unique in the
sense of, that most Afro-American politicians are part of the Democratic Party.
For me personally it seemed like the issue of race and race- marginalization is
intended to be avoided by emphasizing economical issues to install the idea
that it is up to the black population themselves to change situations of
inequality, even when many of these situations were and still are created by
other parts of the society, the part of society that actually has power and
strong political representation. So after the interview we leaved unsatisfied
and still with a lot of question marks in our heads.
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