Just before his senior year at Stall, in late August of 1982, Scott nodded off while driving, flipping his mother’s Toyota hatchback, breaking his ankle and hurting his back - lessening bigger universities’ interest in him as a football recruit. And sometimes he “felt more racism” from his Black friends who called him “Oreo” - “because,” he explained, “I wasn’t meeting the expectation of the groupthink within the school.” 18.
“Sometimes I got hate-filled notes with racial slurs attached to my locker,” he once said. He was elected student body president as a senior. He was elected student body vice president as a junior. I am going to run for president,” he told a friend. “President Tim Scott,” he whispered to himself in bed at night. He slept with a football, toted it to class and rushed it on the field, to the tune of more than six yards a carry as a budding college prospect. His favorite player was running back Tony Dorsett (according to his 2020 book) or quarterback Roger Staubach (according to his 2022 book). His favorite team was the Dallas Cowboys. The owner, a white man named John Moniz, noticed him, struck up a conversation and ultimately became a life-changing mentor - imparting “conservative business principles” and telling Scott, as Scott would later say, “I could think my way out of poverty.” 15. On breaks he went to a nearby Chick-fil-A and always ordered the same thing - waffle fries and a water - because it was the only thing he could afford. He popped popcorn and liked “Rocky III.” 14.
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His first job was at a local movie theater. His mother made him go to summer school and find a job to pay for it. Stall High School, he failed English, Spanish, geography and civics. He had buck teeth as a boy, which made other kids call Scott “Teet.” 12.Īs a freshman at North Charleston’s R.B. “Given enough time,” his grandfather taught Scott, “a seed will find its way through the hardest concrete.” 11. He learned from his grandfather, he said, that the seed is more important than the soil. His grandfather’s greatest love, though, was his garden. “His success helped us to see that we could do more. “Similar to Jackie Robinson, he provided a glimpse of what was to come - the world my grandaddy was striving for,” Scott once wrote.
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He and his grandfather in the mid-’70s watched professional wrestling, and the wrestler they rooted for the most was Houston Harris, who went by the ring name of Bobo Brazil and was the first Black man in the National Wrestling Alliance. He couldn’t read or write but was an avid daily newspaper peruser. His grandfather left school in the third grade to pick cotton for 50 cents a day. When his mother left his father - “Take them away from me and your kids will never succeed! They will be nothing, just like their mama!” he yelled as she drove off - a 7-year-old Scott moved into his grandparents’ small, dirt-road house, where with his mother, his older brother and he shared a room and a bed. His mother was a nurse who often worked double shifts from 7 in the morning till 11 at night. His father was a Kool-menthol-chain-smoking Vietnam vet in the Air Force. Some 150 years after his enslaved ancestors were forced to come to South Carolina, he was born in North Charleston on Sept. “Only in America can my story play out the way it has,” he has said. “America is not a racist country,” he has said.
He is one of only 11 Black people in the history of the country to be in the Senate and one of just three (along with Democrats Cory Booker and Raphael Warnock) currently in the Senate. He is the only Black person to ever serve in both chambers of Congress. He is the only Black Republican in the United States Senate.
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