On Tuesday, the Crusader, the official newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan, published a lengthy editorial supporting the presidential bid of Donald Trump. The glowing review of Trump’s candidacy is just one of many efforts by neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other avowed racists to get out the vote for the Republican candidate. Politico reports that in response to Trump’s repeated and dangerous assertion that the election is rigged against him, and his requests for supporters to monitor polls in heavily minority districts, the white supremacist base is taking steps to suppress the black vote. One group, relying on ridiculous racial stereotypes even in its voter suppression stunts, says it plans to hand out drugs and alcohol in “ghettos” to keep black folks from voting.
“We... have some teams going into the ghettos in Philly with 40s and weed to give out to the local residents, which we think will lead to more of them staying home,” an unnamed representative of alt-right website TheRightStuff.biz wrote to Politico in an email. “We have had success with this in the past.”...
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/neo-nazis-and-white-supremacists-cook-idiotic-plan-keep-black-people-voting
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