Republican senator and presidential candidate Tim Scott says the racist ads attacking Kentucky Republican Daniel Cameron as an “Uncle Tom” are the “epitome of racism,” and says the silence of his Democrat opponent Andy Beshear is “despicable.”
The ads from a liberal Super PAC funded by billionaire George Soros call into question whether Cameron, the first black attorney general in Kentucky history, is truly a friend of the black community. The ad from Black Voters Matters PAC refers to Cameron as “Uncle Daniel Cameron,” and uses the saying, “Skinfolk ain’t kinfolk” — a refrain used by black liberals to suggest that anyone who disagrees with them politically is a race traitor.
Beshear has declined to comment on the ad, telling the Lexington Herald-Leader that because the ad came from “an African American-led PAC,” the governor has opted to “let them comment for themselves.”