S.C. Sen. Tim Scott did his best to try to pretend that the protections in the Voting Rights Act that were just gutted by the Supreme Court are no longer needed in the South. And what was his evidence? Hey, the state elected a black man to the United States Senate and an Indian American woman as Governor, so yay! All of their problems with racism there have been solved.

I guess it's what we should expect from someone who has been willing to disenfranchise eligible voters in his state with his support of voter ID laws in South Carolina. His cohort Gov. Nikki Haley apparently believes the same thing. She said as much when she was defending flying the Confederate flag over the Statehouse grounds and told reporters that “not a single CEO” had complained about it.

I hate to break it to Scott, but electing him and Nikki Haley does not mean we've solved our racism problem any more than the election of the first black President that Scott loves to criticize at every opportunity and as he did here: Tim Scott: "Neutral" progress on race relations under Obama:

I've seen him talking about his "opportunity agenda" on a number of occasions this year, one of which was a forum on education and school "choice" held last month. It's just another push for privatization, gutting public education and more charter schools. Scott went onto try to explain why he doesn't support restoring the Voting Rights Act, and I don't believe for one minute that Republicans ever have any intention of "fixing" what the Supreme Court did.