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You’re Welcome, White People: Alabama’s Black Voters Just Saved America
Don’t be fooled—the Democratic Party didn’t do this. The national media didn’t do this. Doug Jones didn’t even do this. The only reason Donald Trump is sitting in a puddle of Creamsicle-colored tears streaming down his orange-sherbet face is that African Americans in Alabama saved America in a victory as unlikely as when Rocky Balboa…
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The No-Holds-Barred Alabama Senate Race Live Blog and Prayer Circle
Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, 4:50 p.m. CST: A few minutes ago, I cast my ballot for Doug Jones to fill the Senate seat left empty when Jefferson Beauregard Sessions joined the Trump administration to become America’s chief of police beatings and marijuana arrests law enforcement officer. Even though the Doug Jones vs. Roy…
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Roy Moore’s Wife: Our Attorney Is Jewish and We Have Black Friends. We Can’t Be Racists!
Roy Moore really needs to ask his wife and his friends to STFU because they aren’t doing him any favors. Because the world is in goddamn shambles, Moore, the disgraced human who allegedly had inappropriate dealings with underage girls, is still in the running to represent Alabama in the Senate, even after all of this…
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Roy Moore and Alabama’s GOP Are Upset Because Thousands of Felons Registered to Vote
Leonard Robinson was convicted of felony possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute by the state of Alabama more than 20 years ago. Although he doesn’t consider himself an activist, everyone who knows him understands that there is one subject that he is always passionate about. He works hard to spread the word that…
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Roy Moore Is a Stand-Up Dude Because He Turned Down Vietnamese Child Sex Workers Once, Moore’s Friend Says
You know that feeling when you have to say something nice about someone you personally know to be ain’t-shit? When you’re so hard-pressed to recognize any baseline decency about a fuccboi, you find yourself resorting to platitudes like “He’s got hair” and “I think she made the bed once”? Well, that happened Monday night during…
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This Video of White People Who Are Sticking by Roy Moore Is the Whitest and Most Insane Thing That Ever Happened This Week
I’m not going to do a minute-by-minute recap of this video. I can’t. You just have to watch it. I’m literally too flabbergasted to do so. And I don’t get flabbergasted often, but this video … good gotdamn. Watching white folks whitefolkin’ is something we’re all used to by this point, but Meek Mill could…
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Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones Has Nothing to Do With Little Girls; It’s About White Supremacy
When die-hard Republicans engage in the often fruitless exercise of soliciting black and other minority voters to buck the stranglehold of the Democratic voting bloc and join the constantly shrinking tent of the Grand Old Party, they always resort to the same tactics. They declare themselves “the party of Lincoln” and mention how they ended…
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Trump Just Openly Campaigned for an Accused Pedophile
If there was ever a doubt that President Donald Trump is fully caping for his brother from another mother, Senate candidate Roy Moore, he cleared them all up on Saturday morning when he tweeted: The tweet came on the heels of a lackluster campaign rally Friday in Pensacola, Fla., where the president blasted one of…
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Roy Moore Thinks America Was Better When Slavery Was in Place
Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of a lot of things. He’s referred to Asian Americans and Native Americans as “yellows” and “reds” like they’re fucking M&M’s. Multiple allegations have come forth suggesting that he has a predilection for underage girls. The man is seriously problematic, and for some reason, many in…
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A Racist Flyer Might Cost Doug Jones the Election Because the Entire Democratic Party Is Trash
The above photo is not a stock photo or an image created by The Root’s art department. It is an actual flyer circulating around from the Doug Jones for Senate Committee in his run against Elmer Fudd wannabe and schoolgirl aficionado Roy Moore for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, and it has upset black voters across…