Harris blasts Rep. Byron Donalds for comments on Black families under Jim Crow

Vice President Kamala Harris, in an interview published Monday, criticized a suggestion made last week by Republican Rep. Byron Donalds that Black families were “together” during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation.

Vice President Kamala Harris, in an interview published Monday, criticized a suggestion made last week by Republican Rep. Byron Donalds that Black families were “together” during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. Politico reports that the vice president called up the outlet to weigh in on former President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will pick a running mate at next month’s Republican convention. She mostly withheld comment on individual prospects, Politico said, though she did pointedly criticize Donalds, who is among those considered a potential running mate for Trump. “It’s sadly yet another example of somebody out of Florida trying to erase or rewrite our true history,” Harris said, referring to the state’s interventions under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis into Black history curriculums. “I went to Florida last July to call out what they were trying to do to replace our history with lies. And apparently there’s a never ending flow of that coming out of that state.” Donalds’ comments, which come as Trump’s campaign seeks to make inroads with non-White voters, were made at an event in Philadelphia with Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt, another Black Republican supporter of the former president. “You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together,” Donalds said at the event last week, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — because Black people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted conservatively,” he said. In the interview with Politico, the vice president contrasted the Biden administration’s position on abortion with those of the prospective GOP vice presidential nominees.