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Professor Brittney Cooper had the following to say on Twitter about Herschel Walker:

When I see the walking stereotype of Black male mediocrity that is Herschel Walker, I am reminded that a significant swath of white folks need this to be who Black people are, who Black men are. Violent, idiotic, brute, immoral, deadbeats.

The GOP’s support for Herschel Walker’s candidacy is designed as a continual insult and assault on all who strive to be Black and excellent, or hell, just Black and decent.

The GOP had spent decades locking up dudes like Herschel, and propagating a narrative that this is who brothers are. (It is who Herschel is. But he isn’t who all Black men are.) Now they want to give him a senate seat.

This dude is a walking talking Sambo on one hand, and Bigger Thomas on the other. Herschel Walker is the walking embodiment of their white supremacist projections of Black masculinity and I think voters in GA should do everything legal to make sure he doesn’t win.

And I’m pointing this out 1.) because as a Black person I am enraged at their elevation of that abusing MF. And 2.) because for the brothers in Georgia falling for the GOP okey-dokey, it’s not enough to only vote Warnock. You gotta vote Abrams too. The whole GOP hates you.

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Okay, first things first. Herschel Walker is No.1 in today's letter.

“This here, the abortion thing, is false. It’s a lie,” Walker told reporters following a campaign event in Wadley, Georgia.'

“I am not deterred. I am not backing down,” Walker said in a statement later Thursday afternoon. “The stakes are too high. We are going to win this race – and put Georgia first again.”

'During an interview on conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show earlier Thursday, Walker was asked about the Daily Beast reporting and said that “if that had happened, I would have said it, ‘cause there’s nothing to be ashamed of there.” (CNN)

Walker has said he is an absolutist about abortions - NO!

Why is this story not going away? Why, because it is a perfect example of how mad America is. For how long have we heard and seen how many lies in plain sight? We live in the hall of mirrors where two opposing versions of a story are on different sides of the mirror - the truth on one side and the fiction on the other. When one of our two political parties and many millions of people 'believe' the fiction, which the Republicans perpetuate- the LIES - and the people believe them -- What is that? It is Fascism. It is putting the country on a death march as it terrorizes many of us. Combine this with so many Americans not even knowing what's happening.

See America as it is right now.

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