Once again, Black women prove we likely are the most intelligent, sane and common sense-having people in the United States. And once again, others prove that race (not the fact that Roy Moore has been accused of being a pedophile), rules everything around us. You may be thinking, “how sis, if both candidates were white?” I’m glad you asked. First of all, the Republican party’s nickname is the GOP, which stands for Grand Ole Party. I don’t know about you, but often when I hear a term with old, ol’ or ole, it gives me negative vibes about race. For example, GOP (duh), what about “good ol’ boy?” And I hate to do this because I have three cousins who graduated from this institution, but also, Ole Miss. We argue about PWIs and HBCUs about once a year, its fine.
It’s a naive thing to admit, but before this last election when Trump found every Black Republican willing to support him in public, I just didn’t think we rocked with the GOP like that. Still, I think it’s safe to say the majority of Republicans around this county are white conservatives who have a history of implementing and/or supporting policies that work against marginalized groups.
I said all that to say that this election was about race because the fact that Moore has been accused of being a pedophile, but only lost by a narrow margin tells me the accusations against him didn’t mean a thing to 68 percent of white voters who cast their ballot for him. Historically, we’ve associated Black folks with being Democrats and (conservative) whites as Republicans– which is where the race thing comes into play.
Whew! I took y’all on a ride, but we made it. I’m just happy that Doug Jones is Alabama’s newest senator and that we– Black women– the 98 percent of us who voted for him did that!
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