Profs argue Georgia runoffs are racist via Campus Reform.
Are you freakin' kidding me, my Morehouse Brother is projected to win over incumbent Republican Senator Kelly Loefler and this is coming out.
Morehouse College professor Adrienne Jones and Southern Methodist University professor Cal Jillson explained that the history of the Georgia runoff elections is racist in nature. When asked whether the modern runoff system is “undergirded in racist intent,” Jones noted that runoffs continue to be “difficult for black communities.”
In an interview with Boston’s NPR network, Jones reacted to an audio clip of a former state legislator who had lost his seat after the vote was split between himself, another White candidate, and a Black candidate. She said that his comments sounded like President Donald Trump’s phone call with the Georgia Secretary of State because Trump “couldn’t believe that he lost his race” and “demanded a recount.”
Jillson added that after the county unit system — which skewed voting power away from majority African-American regions and toward predominantly White regions of the state — was declared unconstitutional, Georgia added the runoff system.He explained that this occurred as part of the trend of federal courts outlawing “various elements of the Jim Crow” electoral system, followed by state officials finding new ways to continue Jim Crow practices.
h/t Instapundit
I think the runoffs have debunked this quite frankly but then who knows in these unprecedented times this might prove for those professors to be an exception.
I don't know if there has been any concessions, but with the issues that Georgia had in the 2020 presidential race hopefully we will see recounts which I believe is fair.
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