President Donald Trump was unfamiliar with the significance of June 19 when his campaign scheduled a rally for that date in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to Sen. Tim Scott.
Scott was asked to clarify if he meant Trump, White House staff and the president's campaign team were all unaware of the historical connotations of Juneteenth and the Tulsa riots.
"If we hear more of that, our nation will turn its head and listen a little closer to what the president says on issues of race," Scott said."That is the path forward for this nation. It's finding the common ground and those institutions that bring us together. Without that, we may be looking at worse outcomes, not better outcomes, in the next few months."
"If there was a national holiday," he told"Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd,"we would all know about Juneteenth. We'd all have an opportunity to celebrate it and frankly there would be fewer mistakes on that day.""Think about it as a celebration. Don't think about it as an inconvenience,"he said."The fact that I'm having a rally on that day, you can really think about that very positively as a celebration.
"His immediate response was, 'I don't want to do anything to be able to disrespect the black community,'" Lankord said."He didn't see it as disrespectful to be able to do it on Juneteenth. Other people interpreted it differently. And so he moved the rally date."
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