I hadn’t read the USA Today piece or seen this tweet, but I wrote essentially the same thing yesterday in response to a comment on my blog post “The Most Important Senator.” (Not happy about it; I think it’s disgusting, though not surprising, that the Republicans, led by their chief white supremacist, did such a blatantly racist thing.)
But I’m more hopeful Senator Warnock will be reelected–despite the Republicans’ efforts to make it as hard as possible for his supporters to vote.
For the last few months I have been referring, in my comments here and elsewhere, to Herschel Walker as “The poster child for the Society for the Preservation of Negative Stereotypes”.
We should have 99 other Warnocks in the US Senate if the institution had any hope of fulfilling its much vaunted reputation as a great deliberative body imbued with a nation’s finest moral, courageous and wise leaders. Instead, Reverend Warnock has to run against a minstrel show funded by white supremacists who long-ago should be nothing but ashes on history’s dung heap. That he has to endure this insult to a carve out a 50.0001% victory is an eternal disgrace upon all of us.
This tactic worked for the Republicans when they replaced Marshall with Thomas. They found the least qualified, the most obsequious black man they could and put him in the place of a giant in the black community. Now they want to do it again with Walker. They think that any black person will vote for any black man they stand up as far as I can tell and the white people will vote for the black tool.
Been saying this all along…he’s the perfect white racist peckerwood’s ‘one black friend’ candidate.
You can just hear them talking to each other: “That herschel he’s a good one!” “Yep he is, not like that uppity troublemaker boy, Warnock.”
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I hadn’t read the USA Today piece or seen this tweet, but I wrote essentially the same thing yesterday in response to a comment on my blog post “The Most Important Senator.” (Not happy about it; I think it’s disgusting, though not surprising, that the Republicans, led by their chief white supremacist, did such a blatantly racist thing.)
But I’m more hopeful Senator Warnock will be reelected–despite the Republicans’ efforts to make it as hard as possible for his supporters to vote.
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And I’m still thankful for your articulation on this, Annie!
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For the last few months I have been referring, in my comments here and elsewhere, to Herschel Walker as “The poster child for the Society for the Preservation of Negative Stereotypes”.
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We should have 99 other Warnocks in the US Senate if the institution had any hope of fulfilling its much vaunted reputation as a great deliberative body imbued with a nation’s finest moral, courageous and wise leaders. Instead, Reverend Warnock has to run against a minstrel show funded by white supremacists who long-ago should be nothing but ashes on history’s dung heap. That he has to endure this insult to a carve out a 50.0001% victory is an eternal disgrace upon all of us.
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This tactic worked for the Republicans when they replaced Marshall with Thomas. They found the least qualified, the most obsequious black man they could and put him in the place of a giant in the black community. Now they want to do it again with Walker. They think that any black person will vote for any black man they stand up as far as I can tell and the white people will vote for the black tool.
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