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By Kody Fairfield

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott stood on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday and read bigoted tweets from the “liberal left,” which he recieved following his support to confirm Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as the next US Attorney General.

“I left out all the ones that used the n-word,” Scott told his colleagues during his speech, which was aired by C-SPAN. “Just felt like that would not be appropriate.”

Scott, the GOP’s only African-American senator, used his speech to combat colleague Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s use of a letter written by the late Coretta Scott King to protest against Sessions’ confirmation.

The Senator made clear in his comments that bigotry is not beholden to one political party or ideology.

“You see what I’m surprised by, just a smidgen, is that the liberal left that speaks and desires the rest of us to be tolerant do not want to be tolerant of anyone that disagrees with where they are coming from. So the definition of tolerance isn’t that all Americans experience a high level of tolerance is that all Amer­i­cans that agree with them experiences this so-called tolerance,” said the Senator.

Below is a transcript, provided by the Washington Times, of some of the tweets directed at Sen. Scott:

“Senator Tim Scott is not an Uncle Tom — he doesn’t have a shred of honor. He’s a house negro, like the one in ‘Django [Unchained].’ “

“[Mr. Scott is a] black man who is racist against black people. Big Uncle Tom piece of fertilizer.”

“You are a disgrace to your race.”

“How does a black man turn on his own?”

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Sen. Sessions’ contentious nomination process was highlighted by accusations of racism in his past, accusations which appear to have culminatied into attacks on Sen. Scott, ironically enough using racism.

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