“GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore stunned some listeners when he said he thought America was `great` during the era of slavery. Though he made the comments at a campaign rally in Florence, Alabama, more than two months ago, they`ve re-emerged in a viral tweet just days before the election.
Back in September, one of the few African-Americans in the crowd asked the candidate when he thought was the last time America was great.
`I think it was great at the time when families were united. Even though we had slavery, they cared for one another. … Our families were strong, our country had a direction,` Moore responded, according to a Los Angeles Times report in September.
At the same rally, he also referred to Native Americans and Asians as `reds and yellows,` the LA Times reported.”
Huffington Post
The credible accusations of sexual harassment and child molestation against Roy Moore make him politically toxic and morally unfit to serve in the Senate, in a sane world he wouldn`t even be elected dogcatcher. Unfortunately, we don`t live in a sane world, we live in a dystopia where a sexual predator and serial pussy-grabber is the Leader of the Free World.
But before Moore was exposed as a pedophile he had already revealed himself as a homophobe, racist and misogynist Neanderthal.
In a campaign event back in September one of the handful of African-Americans in the audience asked Moore when he thought was the last time America was great. Moore made no attempt to disguise his disdain and prejudice against blacks, he responded:
I think it was great at the time when families were united. Even though we had slavery, they cared for one another. … Our families were strong, our country had a direction.
Moore`s answer reveals that he only cares about the welfare of white families, even elementary schoolchildren realize that during slavery black families were torn asunder. Slaves where sold to the highest bidder, and that usually meant that husbands were separated from their wives, and mothers were separated from their children.
During slavery when cotton was king white families were economically strong because blacks were picking the cotton, and America had a direction all right, an apartheid nightmare. Only after generations of struggle did blacks, women and other minorities finally achieve a semblance of equal rights. As the candidacy of Roy Moore proves we still have a long way to go towards that more perfect union when we are all treated as the children of God.
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