Latisha Patton

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12/07/2022

Period…

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All of this.
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The Georgia election is “a kind of grotesque minstrelsy,” Caroline Randall Williams writes. ⁠
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The Republican Party is using Herschel Walker to advance its agenda “the way conservative white people in this country have always used Black bodies when given half a chance,” Williams writes. “How dare they so cynically use this buffoon as a shield for their obvious failings to meet the needs and expectations of Black voters? They hold him up and say, ‘See, our voters don’t mind his race. We’re not a racist party. We have Black people on our side too.’ Parading Walker at rallies like some kind of blue-ribbon livestock does not mean you have Black people on your side. What it means is that you are promoting a charlatan—a man morally and intellectually bereft enough, blithely egomaniacal enough, to sing and dance on the world stage against his own best interest. Is he in on the joke? Does he know they picked him to save money on boot black and burnt cork, this man who made his name by bringing the master glory on the master’s field, who got comfortable eating from the master’s table?” ⁠
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“Whether Walker wins or loses, whatever was good or valuable or worthy about his prior professional legacy has been utterly compromised,” Williams continues at the link in our bio. “The Republican Party is saying that it wants power more than decency. It’s saying that race is a joke. We must all take note—it is willing to destroy a man to advance its cause. The party thinks he won’t break. And if he does, well, he wasn’t really one of them, anyway, was he? … I don’t particularly care that Herschel Walker doesn’t seem to know he’s being used. I care that America let it get this far, that this country has been wildly careless with Black bodies, Black stories, Black truths. I care that I’m watching the news every day with the foot of bigotry on my back and the noose of regression tightening around my throat. Whoever wins today, Walker’s candidacy is an American tragedy.”