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2019-06-04 Home Front: Politix
Moulton: 'If this country wasn't racist, Stacey Abrams would be governor'
[TheHill] Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said Sunday that racism in America prevented Stacey Abrams from being elected governor of Georgia last year.

"If this country wasn’t racist, Stacey Abrams would be governor," the White House hopeful said during a CNN town hall in Atlanta. "People of color are being systemically denied the most basic right in a democracy, which is the right to vote."

Abrams, a black woman, lost the 2018 gubernatorial race to Brian Kemp, a white man, by a little more than 1 percentage point.

The contest was rife with allegations of minority voter suppression by Kemp, who was secretary of state before running for governor.

Moulton's comment came in response to a question he received about how his administration would combat systemic racism.

The Massachusetts lawmaker called for the protection of voting rights and criminal justice reform.

"I smoked weed when I was younger. I didn’t get caught, but if I had, I would’ve been fine because I’m a white guy," Moulton said to illustrate his point about America's criminal justice system being racist.

He promised to ensure "not two sets of laws ‐ one for black, one for white; one for rich, one for poor ‐ but that everyone in America is subject to the same laws" if elected.
Posted by Beavis 2019-06-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 but that everyone in America is subject to the same laws

He just lost the black vote.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-04 01:13||   2019-06-04 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 If Democrats weren't racist, we wouldn't have a had a civil war.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-06-04 01:51||   2019-06-04 01:51|| Front Page Top

#3 So he's opposed to affirmative-apartheid and differing standards in university!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-06-04 02:27||   2019-06-04 02:27|| Front Page Top

#4 "If this country wasn’t racist, Stacey Abrams would be governor,"

...But she IS Governor, she keeps telling us that! Man, I wish these people would make up their minds....

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-06-04 04:24||   2019-06-04 04:24|| Front Page Top

#5 "I smoked weed when I was younger. It affected my brain for the rest of my life."
Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-04 05:06||   2019-06-04 05:06|| Front Page Top

#6 If "less PC" and "not drowning in kool-ade" is rayciss, sign me up.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-06-04 06:29||   2019-06-04 06:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Abrams, a black woman, lost the 2018 gubernatorial race to Brian Kemp, a white man, by a little more than 1 percentage point.

Stated in an absolute fashion, the losing margin was 50,000 votes; if The Hill was an honest publication they would have mentioned that.
Posted by Raj 2019-06-04 07:29||   2019-06-04 07:29|| Front Page Top

#8 I worry about NC, SC and GA. They seem bent on becoming coastal blue states. Frighteningly, I don't see FL very far behind.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-06-04 07:48||   2019-06-04 07:48|| Front Page Top

#9 i don't know one person in my part of marietta who had ever heard of her before she ran. maybe that's why she lost
Posted by chris 2019-06-04 07:49||   2019-06-04 07:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Not everything is racism, sexism or some of ism or phobia. Like Hillary, Abrams was a really bad candidate.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-06-04 09:32||   2019-06-04 09:32|| Front Page Top

#11 If this country wasn't really racist, a lot of sitting pols wouldn't be in the position they are or had been. Merit would have cleaned out a lot.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-04 09:37||   2019-06-04 09:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Mind you 0bama won the elction and no-one knew anything about his past (mainly thanks to the MSM covering those stories with a pillow until they stop moving).

Obviously now 0bama isn't president the people who (unwisely? perhaps not looking at romney and McCain in retrospect )elected him twice return to being called waycists.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-06-04 11:53||   2019-06-04 11:53|| Front Page Top

#13 By that logic, if this country weren't racist Stacey Abrams would also be on the Playboy centerfold.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-04 12:08||   2019-06-04 12:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Ewww... !
Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-04 12:09||   2019-06-04 12:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Last week the University of Pennsylvania released a study on the state of racism in the US (received to deafening silence, so guess what they concluded! Actually racism is in free fall in the Trump era.)

https://www.worldtribune.com/survey-racial-prejudice-has-significantly-declined-in-trump-era/
Posted by Tom 2019-06-04 13:20||   2019-06-04 13:20|| Front Page Top

#16 First, Seth Moulton is a dick and has incorrect info about his Harvard degree on Wiki. I told him and got a blow off.

Second, this is a great time for the reprise of my Harris/Abrams bumper sticker. Where I live, people like it. Idiots.

https://www.makestickers.com/design/190513100100-y02r5slybuq1nogskc4l0yju?pgid=34621468-a265-415d-a1e3-ce4e6f1d7ab6


Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-06-04 16:45||   2019-06-04 16:45|| Front Page Top

#17 That bias confirmation study that failed. These people are profoundly ignorant.

"A new study has found that anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice has declined since President Donald Trump took office. The results defied their expectations, the researchers said. (Duh.)

In the study, University of Pennsylvania sociologists (not scientists, but users of statistics) Daniel J. Hopkins and Samantha Washington set out to measure the effect of Trump’s election on anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice. For the study, they used a randomly-selected panel of 2,500 Americans whose changing opinions have been under study since 2008."

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2019-06-04 16:50||   2019-06-04 16:50|| Front Page Top

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