U.S. SEN. TIM SCOTT (R-SC): Hear me clearly. America is not a racist country. It's backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination, and it's wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debate in the present.
JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ: That's what Senator Tim Scott said. He is a Republican, he represents South Carolina. He is the lone Black Republican senator, and you've just heard him. He says, "America is not a racist country." But his message was somewhat different in 2016. Let's listen (to this):
SCOTT: In the course of one year, I've been stopped seven times by law enforcement officers. Not four, not five, not six, but seven times, in one year, as an elected official. Was I speeding sometimes? Sure. But the vast majority of the time, I was pulled over for nothing more than driving a new car in the wrong neighborhood, or some other reason just as trivial.
LOPEZ: Draw your own conclusions.