Here's A Running List Of Racist Attacks On Candidates Of Color

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People of color are running for state and national office, and the country has responded with the most American of traditions: by attacking them in very racist ways.

Some attacks are coded. Some are frankly stated. To keep track, we’ve begun a running list, limited to attacks made on candidates of color by their opponents, by opposing political organizations or by opposing campaign surrogates. We’ll make exceptions, however, where a third-party act against a candidate is so racist that it can’t be ignored. For each candidate we’ve graded the attacks on their subtlety using a scale of one to five white hands, in honor of the infamous Jesse Helms ad — five being the most explicit.

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Andrew Gillum, Democratic candidate for governor of Florida
— Former Rep. Ron DeSantis, the GOP nominee for governor, tells Florida voters not to “monkey this up” by electing Gillum.
— Robocalls from a neo-Nazi group in Idaho pretend to be Gillum. “We Negroes … done made mud huts while white folk waste a bunch of time making their home out of wood an stone,” says a man using a stereotypically exaggerated dialect while drums and jungle noises play in the background. The speaker also claims that Gillum will pass a law allowing black people to escape arrest “if the Negro know fo’ sho he didn’t do nothin.’”
Score: ✋🏻✋🏻✋🏻✋🏻✋🏻


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More:https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/racist-attacks-candidates-of-color-midterm-elections_us_5bc0e7b5e4b0bd9ed559f1d7


Read them all if you can stomach it. The GOP is made up of some incrediably sick F**KS!

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1. KR! thanks, she!

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[mcar]

3. It's 2018

Fcking 2018 and still all this racist shite.

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4. Some of them are dumb enough to believe it.

And that is pitiful.

[oasis]

5. Kanye West, Paris Dennard and Dr. Ben Carson should be asked

for a comment about this behavior of their GOP pals.

[Hekate]

6. KnR for keeping up

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7. ugh -- time warp

We're being dragged back to pre-Civil War days.

Be the voter who halts this regression -- BLUE NOV 6.

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8. Bigotry at its lowest. (sic)

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9. Good lord. They are caricatures of themselves....

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10. Kick

[Behind the Aegis]

11. Republican Campaign Ad Claims Iraq War Veteran Is 'Owned' by Jewish Billionaire George Soros

WASHINGTON - A Republican campaign in the state of Minnesota is accusing an Iraq War veteran running for Congress of being “owned” by Jewish billionaire George Soros.

The new advertisement, which the National Republican Congressional Committee shared on Thursday, shows Democratic candidate Dan Feehan next to stacks of dollars and an image of Soros, a Jewish philanthropist originally from Hungary.

The advertisement states that Feehan, a first-time candidate who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq, is “owned” by Soros, and also charges Soros with “funding left wing protests” against U.S. President Donald Trump.

Soros, an 88 years old Holocaust survivor, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars over the past decades in support of human rights groups across the world.

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13. I'm convinced

the Republican paranoia surrounding George Soros is rooted in anti-semitism.

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12. Omg how utterly despicable and depraved

these deplorable thugs are. November 6th can’t get here fast enough. I can’t wait to rub the noses of these fascist bigots in our victories!