Racism rears it’s ugly head in the last weekend before the Florida and Georgia’s Governor votes…
Both have campaigns for the first Black Governor’s in those states…
After targeting Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee for governor in Florida, with outrageously racist robocalls, an Idaho-based neo-Nazi group has reportedly been using the same tactic in Georgia, where another black candidate is engaged in a similarly hotly contested gubernatorial race.
Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who’s vying to be the nation’s first black female governor, was targeted last week in a racially charged robocall funded by the white supremacist group Road to Power, The Daily Beast reported. Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, who’s campaigned door-to-door for Abrams, was also attacked in the prerecorded message.
The voice on the robocall, which went out to an unknown number of Georgia voters, identified itself as the “magical negro Oprah Winfrey.”
“I see … potential in Stacey Abrams,” the voice said. “Where others see a poor man’s Aunt Jemima, I see someone white women can be tricked into voting for, especially the fat ones.”….
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Both Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp are speaking out against “vile” robocalls from an Idaho white nationalist targeting the Democratic nominee for Georgia governor.
The recording from Scott Rhodes, host of white nationalist podcast Road to Power, called Abrams a “poor man’s Aunt Jemima.” Oprah, who campaigned with Abrams in Marietta this week, was derided as a “magical negro.”…
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