Motown bites back
A couple of Republican election officials in Michigan tried to play the racism card and got scorched.
Analysts and voting rights advocates, as well as Democrats, condemned Republican canvassers for an initial 2-2 vote along party lines that threatened on Tuesday night to stall official approval of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Michigan, before reversing course and unanimously certifying its presidential election results.
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Democrat Joe Biden crushed Republican Donald Trump in Wayne county by more than a two-to-one margin, and won the state by 146,000 votes, according to unofficial results. Wayne county is the state’s largest and home to Detroit – an overwhelmingly Black city that leans overwhelmingly Democratic.
Probably all the more so when the Republican on offer is Donald “good people on both sides” Trump.
The Rev Wendell Anthony, a local pastor and head of Detroit’s branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called them a “disgrace”.
“You have extracted a Black city out of a county and said the only ones that are at fault is the city of Detroit, where 80% of the people who reside here are African Americans. Shame on you!” [he] said.
Another infamy day.
And yet we all have learnt from someone-who-shall-be-unnamed though he has appeared here before, as well as from numerous politicians, and in particular members of government, in both the US & the UK, systemic racism does not exist, however blatant it may be. The difficulty minorities have, particularly if their skin is the wrong colour, is in fact because the individual members of these minorities don’t, or don’t want to, pull themselves individually up by their bootstraps in the approved way in which individuals do when their skin colour is of the proper shade, or lack of shade.
In its own way, an electoral Pearl Harbor.
Now the two Republican officials are trying to rescind their votes. One even got a call from a special friend:
Yes, I’m sure he’s concerned about her safety.
Oh good god.