Backlash. Is he complaining or exulting?

Black GOP Senator Blasts Democratic 'Race-Baiting'

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the first black senator elected in the South since the Reconstruction era, is no fan of racially-tinged Democratic attacks on his party.

"The lowest common denominator of fear and race-baiting is something that the other party has tried to do and the voters said, 'No.' They rejected this," Scott said during a Wednesday night interview on Fox News' "Hannity."

"The voters continue to repudiate that approach to politics," he added.

He was responding to Charlie Rangel yelling "Ofay!" at the top of his voice

As he has done repeatedly before, Rangel compared some members of the GOP to confederates from the Civil War era. But at the Thursday evening event, he added that they "believe that slavery isn't over."

"We have to win. We have to be able to send a national message with Andrew Cuomo. And the thing is: Everything we believe in — everything we believe in — they hate. They don't disagree — they hate! They think if you didn't come from Europe 30 years ago, you didn't even make it. Some of them believe that slavery isn't over and they and think they won the Civil War!" Rangel shouted. 

It's a fake complaint, of course.

The more they yell "Ofay!" the more whites who should be on their side desert the Democrats.