Mercy Be, but Democrat Doug Jones eked out a victory over a dreadful opponent, Roy Moore, in the Alabama Senatorial race. He had over 20,000 votes to spare out of something like 1.7 million votes cast. We can thank the African Americans for this result as they turned out like in 2008 for Obama and the Black women voted 98% for Jones. All African Americans (men and women) totaled 96% for Jones and also totaled 29% of the votes cast.
Something not mentioned much, but Jones prosecuted two of the killers of the four young African American girls in the church in Birmingham (September 15, 1963) which was something for Blacks to hang their hat on.
But the white vote was not reassuring with over 65% of the white women voting for unbelievably bad pedophile Roy Moore and 78% of the White men! But we owe a lot to the Whites that stayed home and didn't vote (The turnout was said to be small.). Also I just had a feeling that if 2% of the voters wrote in names for their vote, that Jones would have a chance, and that turned out to be correct.
Only a couple of Moore's incredible stances was his romanticized feelings about the age of slavery plus he opposed the Constitutional amendments after the 10th: In response to a question from one of the only African Americans in the audience — who asked when Moore thought America was last "great" -- Moore acknowledged the nation's history of racial divisions, but said: "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."*
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Abolishing the amendments after the 10th amendment would abolish slavery (13th Amendment), prohibited denial of right to vote by race (15th Amendment) as well as the right to vote for women (19th Amendment).**
I could go on.
* http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/roy-moore-slavery/index.html
** http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/report_roy_moore_quoted_hitler.html
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