Representative Byron Donalds, a Florida Republican whom Donald J. Trump is said
to be considering for his running mate, suggested on Tuesday that the Jim Crow
era had some virtues for Black people while trying to persuade voters of color
to back the former president.

Mr. Donalds, who has emerged as a key Black surrogate for Mr. Trump, made the
comments on Tuesday evening at a “Congress, Cognac, & Cigars” event in
Philadelphia. The gathering, hosted by Mr. Donalds and Representative Wesley
Hunt of Texas, another Black Republican, was intended to promote Mr. Trump and
the Republican brand.

At the event, Mr. Donalds said that the programs that followed the Jim Crow era
of racial violence and segregation — the federal government’s welfare system
during the 1950s and the civil rights agenda of President Lyndon B. Johnson in
the 1960s — had a detrimental effect on Black families.

“You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together,” Mr. Donalds said.
“During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative — because Black
people have always been conservative-minded — but more Black people voted
conservatively.”

Mr. Donalds’s comments drew criticism from members of President Biden’s
campaign, which has been trying to shore up his diminished support from voters
of color, particularly among Black men.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/05/us/trump-biden-election

And let's not forget that slavery was a jobs training program for blacks.

They *always* do this, don't they? Republiscums/QAnon just can't avoid saying
that slavery and state-mandated segregation were good things.

They always present a false choice, and they claim false causes. Expansion of
civil rights for blacks did not "cause" the disintegration of the black family.
The structure of welfare programs probably did in part cause the disintegration
of the black family, but that was an unintended consequence. Bureaucrats get
lots wrong, like automobile manufacturer CAFE standards that gave us the
unequivocal abomination of SUVs.