NAACP Calls Black U.S. Senator A Ventriloquist's Dummy

[From article]
Over the weekend, on the eve of Martin Luther King Day, Barber derided Scott, one of the U.S. Senate’s two black members, for his views.
“A ventriloquist can always find a good dummy,” Barber said, as reported by South Carolina’s The State. “[T]he extreme right wing down here [in South Carolina] finds a black guy to be senator and claims he’s the first black senator since Reconstruction and then he goes to Washington, D.C., and articulates the agenda of the tea party.”

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Tim Scott responds to NAACP insult: Reminds ‘me and others of what not to do’
11:10 AM 01/21/2014
Caroline May
Political Reporter