I don’t know Scott so I can’t speak to the content of his character (I’m sure he’s a decent guy), but the content of his political agenda is pretty clearly at odds with that of the modern civil rights movement. Yes, he’s black, but as Joan Walsh noted, “The fact is, the organizers were reaching out to national GOP leaders, and Scott is not one of them. His hostility to everything the Congressional Black Caucus stands for also makes him an unlikely and provocative choice as speaker.”

Perhaps the biggest issue facing the movement today is voting rights, and fighting the effort to restrict them. Where’s Scott on this? He supported the Supreme Court’s decision to essentially throw out the Voting Rights Act, saying, “punishing six Southern states because of past failures does not help us in the present and certainly does not help find our path to the future.” And he criticized the Department of Justice for challenging South Carolina’s voter ID law.

How about on LGBT rights, which have become a key part of the civil rights agenda and were well represented at Wednesday’s march? Scott is a staunch social conservative. He got a zero out of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign scorecard, and opposes marriage equality, supported the Defense of Marriage Act, etc.