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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorgia Mayor Compares 'Black Voters Matter' To Suicide Cult Amid Bus Controversy
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/georgia-mayor-black-voters-matter_us_5bc86abfe4b055bc947dddd9A mayor in Jefferson County, Georgia, where officials ordered dozens of black elderly voters off a bus headed for the polls earlier this week, posted an apparently racist message on the Facebook page of Black Voters Matter.
Bartow Mayor Robert Morris on Wednesday wrote that Black Voters Matter, a nonpartisan organization that encourages black people to vote, should check that Koolaid you are serving up, as first reported by ThinkProgress.
It is utterly reprehensible that your group maintains that all black voters should vote for a black candidate just because they are the same color as you, Morris wrote on the since-deleted post.
A man named Jim Jones once ran an organization like that, he continued in an apparent reference to the religious cult leader who directed his followers to commit a mass murder-suicide in 1978.
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Georgia Mayor Compares 'Black Voters Matter' To Suicide Cult Amid Bus Controversy (Original Post)
jpak
Oct 2018
OP
They have nothing else to run on. They have used this tactic for years. Not sure it's
Kajun Gal
Oct 2018
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Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)1. They have nothing else to run on. They have used this tactic for years. Not sure it's
going to work this time. Most people have progressed. Not them.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)2. as bad as my run-ins with trumpers
I've had two tell me that Black Lives Matters is a terrorist organization. Yeah, I know where they get this stupid racist shit.
OT:
Louisville, GA is in Jefferson County. Louisville, KY (where those 'Proud Boys' were outed) is in Jefferson County. Jefferson Co., KY is a blue dot.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)3. I'm hoping the aclu can put them through the ringer
over this bus episode. They didn't want elderly, mostly black people getting a ride from the nursing home to early voting. More vote repression.