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On Saturday night at Donald Trump's in Atlanta, the former president did something that probably won't be mentioned much in the write-ups on what was a typical, rambling and lie-filled speech. But for those in the know about election integrity in Georgia and the broader issue of certification, Trump's comments about the Georgia State Election Board were a blaring tornado siren.
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"I don't know if you've heard but the Georgia State Election Board is in a very positive way ... They're on fire, they're doing a great job," Trump said, before naming three Republican members of the SEB--Rick Jeffares, Dr. Janice Johnston and Janelle King.
"Three pitbulls fighting for honesty, transparency, and victory," Trump called them.
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Yesterday at Trump's Georgia rally, his lie-riddled & rambling speech had all the usual hits: false election conspiracies and attacks on VP Harris.threadreaderapp.com
But one part of Trump's remarks stuck out.
And it may be a preview of his strategy in November.
Trump praised the Georgia State Election Board, a government body overseeing its election rules.
Trump thanked three of the Georgia State Election Board's members specifically for their efforts to change Georgia's certification rules.
This is odd. Trump doesn't usually concern himself with details this in-the-weeds.
Food for thought for those who say that Kamala's ancestor was a slave owner:
Did U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris' Ancestor Own Slaves in Jamaica?www.snopes.com
Finally, it is worth noting that, even if it is true that the Harris family are descendants of the Antrim slave owner Hamilton Brown, they are also quite likely to be descendants of slaves. It is well-documented that British and Irish slave owners in the Caribbean (and their counterparts in the American colonies) routinely raped and engaged in illicit sex with female slaves, resulting in many "illegitimate" children of mixed racial heritage.
If it is the case, for example, that Christiana Brown was the daughter of Hamilton and Mary Melvina Brown, this means that two of Christiana's siblings were Mabel Melvina and Edwin Hamilton Brown, both of whom were listed in their baptismal records as "colored," that is of mixed race (as opposed to "black" or "white," the other labels used in baptismal records at that time).
This in turn would mean that Hamilton Brown, a man born on the island of Ireland in the late 18th century and a prominent and powerful slave owner, had racially mixed grandchildren, after fathering a daughter (Mary Melvina) with a woman whose name did not appear on the baptismal certificate. Although we don't have clear proof, that pattern strongly suggests that that particular branch of Brown's family tree derived just as much from an enslaved woman, whose identity may well be lost to history, as it did from Brown himself.
Bluewaffles,
Kamala is black by the standard definiton of black in this country once upon a time:
The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.en.wikipedia.org
This concept became codified into the law of some U.S. states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste system and later segregation. Before the rule was outlawed by the Supreme Court in the Loving v. Virginia decision of 1967, it was used to prevent interracial marriages and in general to deny rights and equal opportunities and uphold white supremacy.
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