From ThePostMillennial.com….
The Washington Post’s resident fact checker Glenn Kessler dug into the ancestral background of Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), who has been tapped to give the GOP response to President Biden’s State of the Union address next week.
Scott, who is an outspoken conservative, has written and spoke about his family’s background and his ancestors’ work in cotton fields and agriculture. For Kessler, Scott’s placement as a Republican contender to Biden’s message means that his ancestry is open for debate.
New #FactChecker –> Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton. There’s more to that tale. https://t.co/Pg4WSUNHFs
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 23, 2021
Kessler digs into census and property records to come to the conclusion that Scott’s family was way too well-off to really be considered at all downtrodden or oppressed. Kessler doesn’t say this directly, he skirts the issue, but that’s the intention of the article.
Kessler dug into census records, death certificates, and property records, from 1870, and came up with this:
