Donalds: Blacks Were Better Off Under Jim Crow Laws

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

Donalds said he is starting to see the “reinvigoration of Black family,” which he described as younger people forming nuclear family units and “helping to breathe the revival of a Black middle class in America.” He went on to say that those family values had previously been eroded by Democratic policies that Black voters embraced after becoming loyal to the party due to the Civil Rights Movement.

“You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively,” he said. “And then H.E.W., Lyndon Johnson — you go down that road, and now we are where we are,” he added, referring to the former U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Read the full article. Donalds is considered to be on Trump’s shortlist of potential running mates. As you can see below, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is pouncing, as is the Biden campaign.

UPDATE: Donalds has just posted a video claiming that he was taken out of context. See the video below.