Roy Moore Claims Giving Blacks Voting Rights Has Created 'Problems' For America

[lastlib]

http://leftoverrights.com/gop-senate-nominee-roy-moore-claims-giving-blacks-voting-rights-created-problem-country/

Last night, Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore spoke in Jackson, a small city in rural south Alabama, where he made one of the most racist statements in modern history by a nationally covered political actor. The entire thing was caught on camera...

Moore literally said that new rights created in 1965 have created the “problem” we have today in this country. If you happen to need a refresher, the rights he referred to were enacted by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which remains a landmark piece of federal legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

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Admittedly speaking off the cuff, Moore said that the United States has been in a “spiritual” decline since they [government] “started creating new rights in 1965,” and that as a result of these new rights, “today we’ve got a problem.”

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Jefferson Beauregard notwithstanding, has this state produced a more reprehensible scumbag since George Wallace??

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh yeah..........just like giving the women the vote has caused problems for America too!

Slimey SOB.

[LisaL]

4. I honestly am surprised if he hasn't claimed that giving women the right to vote

caused problems for America.

[steve2470]

32. he would be in good company with Neil Boortz if he did

I was aghast when I heard him say that on the air, many years ago when I actually would listen to that shite.

[oasis]

2. His "Trent Lott Moment". nt

[LisaL]

3. Isn't he just wonderful?

[crazycatlady]

5. This should be an ad on black media

[Skittles]

10. it's offensive to plenty of white folk too

[crazycatlady]

16. I agree but when you're advertising

release it to who he's going after.

And I'm not sure if Black media exists the way that Latino (Spanish language) media does.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. It Damned Well Offends Me

Obviously, you too!

[Skittles]

26. you know it, ProfessorGAC

I get a sick feeling when I hear garbage like that.

[First Speaker]

6. Most "conservatives" agree with him...

...they just hide it better...

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. As with Trump, it's bad enough knowing a person like him exists,

but devastating to know enough people consider such a man suitable for public office to get him actually elected.

[dalton99a]

8. And this vile despicable piece of trash was elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court

[lastlib]

22. Twice!

I'm beyond words to say how evil this guy is.

The question is, How. Do We. Stop. Them?

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke

[malaise]

30. Because his voters share his views

They are racist to the core

[Hoyt]

9. That will give him a boost in polls among white wingers.

[struggle4progress]

11. "It's out of control! What's next? Will they say you can't diddle with fourteen year olds?"

[magicarpet]

12. A Fascist Theocracy is what Roy hopes and prays for.

[TomCADem]

13. This Could Give Him a Bump In the Polls In the South

As was the case with Trump, people underestimate how many folks are raging racists.

[Jim Lane]

14. He might mean Medicare.

It was created in 1965, over the Republican objections that it was "socialized medicine" (sound familiar?). Of course, it's also plausible to think he meant the Voting Rights Act.

Another hypothesis, less likely but not completely impossible, is that it was a slip of the tongue. Instead of "1965", what he meant to say was "1865". He's against all the new rights that "they" started creating then.

[steve2470]

29. naw he meant the VRA nt

[LuckyCharms]

15. I hate all of these hideous shitbags. n/t

[raccoon]

18. What a brazen racist. He would make Adolf proud. NT

[sunonmars]

19. This guy is the full on whackadoodle.

[spanone]

20. hey roy, put on your hood & robe and go away.

[Martin Eden]

21. Pedophile AND Racist

The latter shouldn't hurt him among the GOP base, but the former may cost him the election.

[HughBeaumont]

23. Ped, racist, AND competing against a guy who sent murdering Klansmen to jail.

This is for you, Pedabama:

[Gothmog]

24. Moore is a racist asshole

[Initech]

25. And you are outta here!

[SummerSnow]

27. Ben Carson endorsed him. I bet he will agree

Carson: "Judge Moore is a fine man of proven character and integrity, who I have come to respect over the years," Carson said in the statement. "I was delighted to hear he is running for the US Senate. He is truly someone who reflects the Judeo-Christian values that were so important to the establishment of our country. It is these values that we must return to in order to make America great again. I wish him well and hope everyone will make sure they vote on Tuesday."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/22/politics/ben-carson-backs-roy-moore-alabama-trump/index.html

[steve2470]

28. damn could he have said I'M A FREAKING RACIST any better ?

Wow. I guess if you're a pedophile, being a racist isn't that bad in his eyes.

What's next, Hitler was misunderstood ?!

[GaryCnf]

31. At some point Moore

is going to hook up so many cars to his despicable train that it will grind to a complete stop.

[lame54]

33. The freedoms that being an accepted pedophile give

[LenaBaby61]

34. Moore wants to go back to a time when ....

Klansmen could lynch black people (Mostly black males) which was seen as real FUN for the whole family and the community. Just look at the smiles on many of those spectators faces .... Nothing like the smell of burning human flesh to end a "great" evening out.



"Ah lynchings," Roy "pedio" Moore is thinking. "Just the thing that would bring white families like MINE and families who think like MINE thinks back together again in MY vision of "Christian AmeriKKKa."



That man standing next to the little girl wearing his best hat and clothing probably enjoyed his day of high times & lynching. And the little girl seems quite giddy attending her day at the lynching party. Hey, if that's daughter and father, I guess they spent a wonderful day. Nothing like a good old-fashioned, southern lynching to bond a daughter and father which undoubtedly gave them memories that lasted them their lifetimes.