Today’s lesson in doing it wrong comes courtesy of Alabama GOP Senate hopeful Roy Moore:
EXCLUSIVE: Alabama Senate candidate refers to Native Americans and Asians as "reds and yellows" https://t.co/GLOb9XFcQA pic.twitter.com/4nYYxr9yPX
— The Hill (@thehill) September 18, 2017
This happened at a campaign speech yesterday:
“We were torn apart in the Civil War — brother against brother, North against South, party against party. What changed?” Moore asked in footage provided to The Hill by a Republican monitoring the race.
“Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting. What’s going to unite us? What’s going to bring us back together? A president? A Congress? No. It’s going to be God.”
Moore’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about his language.
Ooooooof.
He's talking about stop lights, you guys. https://t.co/Fi1oBup0Y7
— Mike (@ThePantau) September 18, 2017
That’s certainly one explanation, yes.
This is so disgraceful!
— Ash MC (@Internshiphawk) September 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/Kathyvacation/status/909867058837573634
https://twitter.com/elisecterry/status/909865897145143297
GOP 2012: really we're not harboring racists and that's very unfair
GOP 2017: ah fuck it https://t.co/k7XABSZKbh
— kilgore trout was in the loop (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 18, 2017
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Roy Moore seems like the kind of candidate who could benefit from a handler. Or a life coach. You know, someone who could convince him to take a few minutes to get his stuff together.
There's no other way to interpret his comments, but in fairness to him, he never specifically said he meant Asians and Native Americans. https://t.co/J5XhDHBNpM
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) September 18, 2017
Still – yeesh. Maybe think before you speak.
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) September 18, 2017
That is really good advice.
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