'Hate in their heart': Byron Donalds's office sent copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Virginia Aabram, Congressional Reporter
January 19, 2023 12:32 PM
Rep. Byron Donalds's (R-FL) office received a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin on Thursday, according to the congressman, who accused the book's sender of having "hate in their heart."
The 1852 anti-slavery novel is one of the best-known abolitionist works of all time, but its portrayal of the deferential main character Uncle Tom, a slave, is used against conservative black people to accuse them of selling out to the Republican Party.
"Whoever sent this book did so w/ hate in their heart & the desire to depict me as a sellout," he tweeted, followed by a quote attributed to basketball player Bill Russell: "Concentration & mental toughness are the margins of victory."
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