 We have to do better.After South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced that African American Republican Tim Scott would be named to the soon-to-be-open U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina, held by Jim DeMint on December 17, 2012, Reed, in an op-ed published in the December 18, 2012 edition of "The New York Times", stated, "It obscures the fact that modern black Republicans have been more tokens than signs of progress.