The afterward is a archetype of animadversion delivered by Shay Hawkins and the Honorable Agent Tim Scott at the 2021 Hamilton Award Dinner
Shay Hawkins: Acceptable evening. I do some assignment with the Manhattan Convention periodically on panels and things forth those curve and so I was activity to freestyle, but based on that, the aggregation absitively to accomplish me abode aggregate bottomward actuality to accumulate my comments beneath four minutes, so we’re activity to get through this quickly. We are actuality and it is my abundant account to acquaint Agent Tim Scott. And so we’re anniversary him with tonight’s Hamilton Award. Agent Scott is a acceptable acquaintance of mine, but he’s additionally my above boss. But we’re not actuality to allocution about how abundant of a bang-up Agent Scott was. We are actuality to account him for the abundant assignment he’s done in his continued career in attainable policy.
So I met Agent Scott aback in 2009. I had aloof had a absolute astringent car accident. And the aboriginal blow I went to alfresco of my abode that wasn’t concrete therapy, was affair with Agent Tim Scott. All of the bounded association told me, hey, there’s a guy you got to meet. He’s advancing to Cleveland, Ohio to bout our allotment schools. So Ohio doesn’t do a lot great, but we do academy best well. We’re leaders in academy best as Agent Scott was to become, and so I had no abstraction that seven years afterwards I would end up animate for him and allowance him to abstract cogent genitalia of the tax ameliorate bill. Agent Scott rose from a absolute difficult accomplishments to accompany Congress in 2010 aback he was adopted to the Abode of Representatives. Afterwards added than a decade on Charleston County Council. Three years later, he was appointed to the Senate area he kept his bench in two elections, and hopefully, we’ll accomplish that a three actuality advancing up.
And he was the aboriginal atramentous agent from the South aback Reconstruction and has been a abundant apostle of according opportunity, acceptable policing, and civic accord anytime since. And we should additionally agenda that Agent Scott is the aboriginal and alone African-American in history to be adopted to both the Abode and the Senate. So we’re absolute aflame about that. As you all know, Agent Scott is amidst the nation’s arch advocates for allotment schools and opportunity zones. He has consistently pushed to accord parents added choices in area they accelerate their kids to school, including during this accomplished year and a bisected while boundless academy closures and acquirements blow appearance added acutely than anytime why families charge options. And he spearheaded the acknowledged accomplishment to accommodate befalling zones in the 2007 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a action that encourages advance and entrepreneurship in about 9,000 of the nation’s atomic demography tracks.
Senator Scott has additionally become a above force in the agitation over badge ameliorate aback so abounding others accept affectionate of aloof into slogans and partisanship. Like best Americans, Agent Scott believes that you can do two things at once. One, we apperceive that badge are a acute aspect of attainable safety, abnormally in the nation’s best brittle communities. And two, there are means to advance policing and do a bigger job at captivation bad actors accountable. He’s angry to abode absolute problems aback abnegation efforts to defund or contrarily attenuate the men and women who put their lives on the band to assure all of the blow of us.
And so added broadly, Agent Scott has fought for civic unity, arguing that the armament affairs us calm are absolutely stronger than the armament that are aggravating to cull us apart. He knows the country is not absolute and has announced acutely about his own adventures with discrimination, but he additionally knows that America’s founding ethics are complete and that we’ve fabricated immense advance appear those ethics and that it’s amiss to acknowledge America to be a racist action and to characterization Americans as oppressors or oppressed, artlessly based on the blush of their skin.
Fortunately, Scott’s alone 55 years old and he will be alarming and angry for us for abounding years in the future, both in the Senate and whatever abroad comes. But already tonight, we accept so abundant to account him for. He is the active apotheosis of the American dream and a force for acceptable in this country. So now I’d like to acceptable the man himself to the podium, ladies and gentlemen, Agent Tim Scott.
Senator Tim Scott: Thank you. Obviously, aback I accomplishment speaking, you guys get to go home, so they’re aflame for me to allege and get out of here. I accept that part. Let me aloof say to Shay, who alien me, as I was animate through the befalling area legislation, I had some absolutely acceptable ideas, and abundant of it, I blanket from Jack Kemp and the action zones. But it was Shay Hawkins who absolutely wrote the legislation on my behalf. And I appetite to acknowledge you, Shay, for your adamantine work, your dedication, and your brain. God absolve you.
We are absolutely actuality served by some of the greatest association I’ve anytime had a adventitious to watch do their jobs. If you would booty a minute to acknowledge the association that are confined the tables all over this room. Acknowledge you all for the way you’ve taken affliction of us tonight. I additionally had a adventitious to airing about a little bit because aback you’re a afraid guy from the South, you don’t appetite to sit there and eat the, I anticipation it was pork chop, but it’s absolutely lamb chop. I ample I wouldn’t do that. I absolved about and afraid out with association at altered tables. And I had a adventitious to go over actuality and allocution to accession in New York’s finest, the law administration admiral and retired officers. God absolve you all aback there.
To every distinct aboriginal responder in this room, we owe you a debt of gratitude. We absolutely do. Acknowledge you for the way you do your job. Acknowledge you for your affection and your passion, and your benevolence for people. To the Manhattan Institute, acknowledge you. Acknowledge you for the assignment that you’ve done for years, 44 years or so, on issues, bread-and-butter opportunity, education, equality, and association stability. You all do it bigger than any added convention in our nation. I anticipate we charge added Manhattan Institutes about this country. I’ve recommended accessory sites in cities all over the nation. Paul, I’m activity to let you amount out how to get that done. So, administrator of the board, it’s all your responsibility. You guys assignment together, okay? The new associates of the lath can accord as well. So this is absolute important work.
I’ll say this, that in abounding ways, I am absolutely active my mother’s American dream. And the acumen why I angle afore you today aflame about area we are and what we’re talking about is because in this country it is absolute that anybody from anywhere at any time can acceleration above their wildest acuteness with aloof a few pieces of life’s puzzle. Eva Moskowitz spends her activity authoritative abiding that one of the pillars that’s absolutely important, the colonnade of education, is attainable to kids who accept absurd and absolute potential, but area they live, admission to a affection apprenticeship isn’t a possibility. But it’s her drive, her tenacity, and the alertness to get association to abutment your dream and your vision, maybe association at your table, animate calm makes all things possible. And acknowledge you for accomplishing what you do afterwards any question. Success Academy is a above success for the nation.
I’ve said it several times before, but I’ll say it again, I had the acceptable affluence of actuality aloft by a distinct mother in the abysmal South, mired in poverty, who believed that there’s abode in all work. My mother formed 16 hours a day, three canicule a week, and two canicule a week, she formed eight hours a day because she acquainted like it was her albatross to accomplish abiding that there was a archetypal of assignment in our household, that me and my brother would consistently see accession activity to work. And if she could do it herself, it was her albatross to get it done. Do not ask anyone to do for you what you can do for yourself was my mama’s motto. And literally, she showed me the way to success in a way that no one abroad could accept done.
And I will say that, as you all may be aware, that some kids don’t pay absorption as continued as they should. My brother was a absolute kid. I was not. So from seven to about fourteen years old, I started afloat in the amiss direction. I anticipation the challenges of my life, the actuality that my ancestor was not about gave me affidavit not to be committed to my own future. And so as a apprentice in aerial school, I bootless out of school, didn’t accept a Eva Moskowitz in my neighborhood. I bootless Spanish and English. And aback you abort Spanish and English, no one calls you bilingual. They alarm you bi-ignant because you can’t allege in any language. Also, accepting the Alexander Hamilton Award is a blessing. I did, however, abort civics as well.
Now, afterwards eight years in the Senate, I am not the alone one declining civics and the United States Congress. I had the advantage of accepting my mom appear home from assignment and aggravating to animate and actuate me during that absolute boxy year. And she would consistently acquaint me that if you aloof shoot for the moon, alike if you absence you’ll be amid the stars. And she was a abundant motivator and she was my inspiration. But afterwards my apprentice year and the beating that it was, she came home about 11:40 one night, absolved up the stairs in our apartment, she looked at my abode card. She looked at me, she looked at my abode card. She befuddled me a little bit. And she said, “Sweetheart.” I affected to be asleep. She said, “Baby.” She said, “Timmy.” I said, “Yes. Ma’am.”
She says, “I formed so adamantine for so long, and this is the best affair you can do?” I didn’t absolutely butt the force of the bearings until she pulled me by my hand, absolved me downstairs, and went outside. So I knew that I was activity to cliff. I knew I was activity to accept an absolute assignment about moon and stars. But she said I had already bootless that course. So she absolved me over to a little timberline and she said, “Pick a branch.” Great. So I best a branch. She said, “Pull the leaves off.” And bethink this is South Carolina, not New York. This was acknowledged at the time that it was done. I’m not abiding what you guys do up here. Anyways, so I took the leaves off, and I said, “Mama, what is that?” And she alien me to the attitude of a switch. Now, for those of y’all not accustomed with the Southern traditions, a about-face is a Southern accoutrement of encouragement.
It is about activated from your belt to your ankles. And I was thoroughly encouraged, went to summer school, and never bootless accession accountable in my absolute life. I additionally never heard cutting for the moon and missing the stars either, but there’s article about conduct that absolutely works. And so aback we anticipate about and allocution about the accent of apprenticeship equality, aback we anticipate about and allocution about authoritative abiding that there is affection apprenticeship in every distinct zip cipher about the country, the after-effects of not accepting it is alternation in our nation that grows into added crime, added dependency, and absolutely the blow of the American fabric. It starts actuality strained. So I can’t accentuate or aggrandize the accent of the assignment that so abounding in this allowance are accomplishing today and every day in acknowledging academy choice, whether it’s allotment schools, attainable schools, clandestine schools, basal schools, home schools. Every allotment of the academy accoutrement that improves and provides antagonism and affection apprenticeship for our kids makes America stronger and convalescent and added independent. It protects the goose that lays the aureate eggs.
That’s one of the affidavit why I’m so aflame about accepting accessory locations of the Manhattan Institute. We charge added of what you do actuality everywhere because I will say that this anticipate tank, this Convention provides the blazon of ability and the advisers that are absolutely important to acceptable the debates. I am absolutely an optimist and accept that 80% of the bodies still appetite to accept a civilian attainable appointment area we agitation the big issues of our future. That requires us to do the adamantine assignment every day so that attainable appointment charcoal civil. The Manhattan Institute, you do it in a way that is with respect, about courteous, consistently fact-driven, and compelling.
For some acumen on the right, we anticipate that if we’re not shouting louder, bodies can’t apprehend us. It’s wrong. It’s not effective. Politics is a bold of addition. In adjustment for us to change minds, we accept to aboriginal abode the heart. I anticipate it was Jack Kemp who said “people don’t affliction how abundant you know, until they apperceive how abundant you care.” That’s our albatross as bourgeois leaders to advice bodies accept the heart, the why, afore we alpha accepting a chat about the what.
As I entered into my green year, I had the acceptable affluence of affair a Chick-fil-A operator, who was a baby business buyer who saw article in me that I absolutely could not see myself. And John Moniz, that Chick-fil-A guy spent four years advance in me and teaching me some absolute basal attempt that I am so beholden for today and every day. And as that kid, aback he met me at 15 years old, I anticipation the alone way out of abjection for a poor kid in Charleston, South Carolina was either entertainment, athletics, or drugs. Those are absolutely bad options for 99.9% of our kids. I will acquaint you that two of my accompany growing up, went the avenue of drugs and fabricated a lot of money for a little while. One was attempt through the chest at 21, and the added one died at 18. And my best acquaintance spent seven years in the federal penitentiary.
There are after-effects to those who charge to apprehend the truth. If there are not abundant truth-tellers in those communities, we all lose. And John never gave up on me. He never surrendered. He consistently basic me to apperceive that accepting a job was a acceptable thing, but creating jobs was a bigger thing. John accomplished me that ultimately, he said, son, your assets will adjudge your lifestyle, but your accumulation can change your community. Profits are consistently bigger than wages. It took me a little while to amount that out. Aback I awash my business and the Obamacare 3.8% was tacked on the 20% basic assets tax, I accepted what he meant. It got absolute then. But one of the things that you all do absolutely able-bodied is allocution about bread-and-butter befalling and bread-and-butter mobility. And I anticipate it’s our albatross for those of us who are active the American dream to not balloon to absorb time in places area bodies don’t necessarily allure us, so that we are the aberration that bodies charge to see in places area absolute few bodies go. I will acquaint you that John was right. I was wrong.
I am so animated that afterwards my chief year in aerial school, I had a above car accident, went through the windshield, bankrupt my ankle, absent eight weeks of my chief football season, absent lots of scholarships, concluded up with a baby scholarship. I am so beholden that for four years, John accomplished me about business, about affairs my mom the house, not through my activities on the football field, but through acquirements the business attempt that consistently advance up.
So abounding adolescent kids today who grew up in neighborhoods like I did appetite to booty affliction of mom. They appetite to accept the aegis to apperceive that their families will consistently be bigger off. And the way we get there is not by affairs them a aqueduct dream of contest or entertainment or drugs. We can do what others say is impossible. The American dream is alive. It’s healthy. It aloof needs a little advance in the areas area bodies today accept absent hope.
I attending about this allowance and I see a lot of John Monizes, who’ve absolutely invested a lot of your assets in authoritative New York and this nation a bigger place. I attending about this allowance and accept had conversations with a cardinal of you who are amorous about this nation. I anticipate the affair that we accept to avert the best is the American culture. I anticipate the affair we accept to avert the best is authoritative abiding that we assure the goose that lays the aureate eggs so that anniversary bearing allowances from the assignment done by the antecedent generation. And aback that happens, the abutting American aeon starts. We are not accomplished yet. Our best canicule are afterwards catechism accepting accessible to start.
The challenges that we feel today, there’s a book alleged The Storm Afore the Calm, I accept that we were in the average of the storm. I anticipate it’s a all-important storm. I anticipate sometimes you accept to attending in the mirror and see if you admit who you appetite to be. Are your dreams still alive? Are you so animate to accomplish a aberration in someone’s activity that you’ll never meet? That’s the adventure of America. And if we do what we’re declared to do, aback we’re declared to do it, the day will appear aback this nation is able to angle to the greatest threats alfresco because today, we accept to accord with the greatest threats inside. We are absolute absent from our assignment as a all-around baton because we’re so focused on the attending of a person, on the adoration of a person. That’s not America.
America believes in the agreeable of the character, not the blush of the skin. My coach was a white guy who didn’t accept a affairs that you could become a allotment of. He aloof saw accession who bare a little advice and he gave me a little push. Everybody that I apperceive is accommodating to do article for accession who cannot pay them back. It’s because we are an aberrant people. Never balloon it. Never look down aback you’re talking about us. And consistently bethink that the best is yet to appear and you represent that best. God absolve you and acknowledge you.
Editor’s note: In the absorption of time, this transcript has accustomed alone basal alteration for breadth and clarity. Please email events@manhattan-institute.org for any corrections.
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