Ben Shapiro

Well, Democrats, given the fact that they're not particularly popular on either foreign or domestic policy, they're now being relegated to doing what they do best, playing the race card.

Representative Ro Khanna is now claiming that South Carolina is denying black people the right to serve in Congress.

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South Carolina, where the first shot of the Civil War was fired, where 40% of those enslaved came through the Charleston port, is today engaged in an ugly recidivism to draw maps that will deny a black person the chance to serve in Congress.

The stakes could not be higher.

Our political fight is not on a playground, but a moral battleground.

We must stand for black representation across the South.

Just going to point out at this point that one of the senators from South Carolina is Tim Scott, who is black.

And he has been in either Congress or the Senate since 2011.

But he's a black Republican, so apparently he doesn't count.

Bakari Sellers.

And again, I like Bakari.

He's a nice guy.

But this is a pretty wild take here on CNN, suggesting that nothing has changed in America between 1896 and 2026, which is strange since both he and another black host are on the air discussing it.

If a black person from 1896 woke up in 2026, the first thing they would say is,

This is wild.

You mean we had a black president already?

Like for two terms?

And we have a bunch of black Congress people?

And we have a bunch of black senators?