Scarborough: ‘Assault on Civil Rights’ Sparked Reaction That Got Black Leaders Elected

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SCARBOROUGH: “You know, the Rev brings up such an important, such an important point, Jonathan Lemire, one that Mika and I were talking about earlier. This man was elected, Keisha was elected, other black leaders were elected, in part because of the assault on civil rights and voting rights of black Americans, were it not for the Supreme Court aggressively assaulting the Civil Rights Act — and a lot of Republicans actually saying openly what bigots, what segregationists said in the 1960s, it should have never been passed. The fact that that became mainstream thought for a lot of Republicans, that caused what we saw, not only in Mississippi and Georgia, but South Carolina and North Carolina and Texas and across America, that it was actually the aggression against civil rights and voting rights for black Americans that actually led to the reaction that got Scott elected, that got Keisha elected.”