WASHINGTON _ Sen. Tim Scott is being lauded for helping spur fellow Republicans to take action against one of their own, Rep. Steve King, for comments sympathetic to white supremacists _ but the Senate's only black Republican has mixed feelings about getting much of the credit.
"I think it's more burden than it is credit," South Carolina's Scott told McClatchy on Wednesday.
"One of the things I always think about is, whenever I do what it is that I do, that the next time something occurs, I'm going to be in the same position ... And I don't want to consistently be the guy who has to point out all the challenges or inadequacies or things that are just inconsistent with reality, from my perspective, for the party or for the country," he said.
