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National politician with Harvard degree = every day American?!?
Sounds like a seriously fucked up elevator.
Reminds me of the ending of Angel Heart.
"What I did not realize was all of the national conversation about states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, was seen as casting doubt on the validity of votes coming out of predominantly Black communities like Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Detroit," Lankford's letter went on.
"After decades of fighting for voting rights, many Black friends in Oklahoma saw this as a direct attack on their right to vote, for their vote to matter, and even a belief that their votes made an election in our country illegitimate."
GOP Senator James Lankford Apologizes to Black Constituents for Opposing Election Results
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-senato...onstituents-opposing-election-results-1561826
Somehow he didn’t realize what everyone outside of his party already knew.
Although I highly doubt his sincerity, at least he did apologize and say something contrite. Ignorance is no excuse though. I wonder whether he even knows (or privately cares) that one of the worst and largest racial attacks by whites on blacks in American history took place in Tulsa in 1921 - the Tulsa massacre. Probably not. I'll bet there were a lot of very fine people on bosides of that massacre.
The letter came amid calls from Black leaders for Mr. Lankford to resign from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission, whose mission is to commemorate the racist massacre in the city’s Greenwood district, where a white mob destroyed an affluent Black neighborhood and its Black-owned businesses, and killed up to 300 residents.
100 years later Lankford’s lies caused a similar uprising in the US Capitol. Things haven’t changed that much.
Well, hopefully he is aware then, although whether he cares is still a very real question.
I’m pretty sure that he is aware...
He’s on the committee to memorialize the centennial of the event. How could he possibly not be aware of the existence of the event?
There are plenty of things to criticize and attack him for. You don’t need to make shit up that undermines your other legitimate criticisms.