(The New York Times) – “Mr. Nabors [a black voter] said that black voters were paying attention to Mr. Moore’s comments in September, in which he said that America was last “great” during the days when slavery was legal. He said they paid attention when Mr. Moore brought Stephen K. Bannon, the former Trump adviser, to campaign for him. He said that they paid attention to the allegations brought by the women who said Mr. Moore had consorted with them when they were young.”
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Devon Crawford, 24, a black Alabamian, came home from the University of Chicago to vote against the Republican Roy S. Moore in the special Senate election here.
Mr. Crawford, who is earning a master’s degree in divinity, was standing near the stage at the victory party for Mr. Moore’s opponent, Doug Jones, arguing that Mr. Moore’s Christianity did not square with the vision of faith shared by so many black civil rights leaders whose blood was shed on Alabama soil.
Mr. Moore’s version, he said, “sanctifies the truth-making power of white men’” and was “really just a masquerade for white supremacy.”
Click to continue reading. By RICHARD FAUSSET, Dec.13, 2017.