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Tim Scott, do you remember James Byrd, Jr.?

From his bullshit response to Biden’s win, to his appearance on The View recently — apparently the answer is “No!”

Deb C.🇵🇸💚
2 min readJun 8, 2023

This Black man, who continuously talks about his “single-mother” upbringing, acts like he’s the only one who’s lived that reality. {SMMFH}

It was 25 years ago today (well yesterday, depending on when you’re reading this), that three white men, Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King — dragged James Byrd, Jr. to his death— mutilating and decapitating his body along the way before dumping his torso in front of a black cemetery (despite Tim’s stupid-assed bleating, the purpose of white terrorism never changes does it?):

In modern Texas history, Brewer and King were the first white men to be sentenced to death for killing a Black person. And though Lawrence Brewer was executed by lethal injection on September 21, 2011 and John King was executed by lethal injection on April…

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Deb C.🇵🇸💚
Deb C.🇵🇸💚

Written by Deb C.🇵🇸💚

Former Navy Russian linguist, Realtor, Claims Adjuster, OpEd columnist/Features writer at a small, S. Florida newspaper. Since 2007, blogged at “Let’s Be Clear”

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