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We discuss the Doug Jones and Roy Moore election in Alabama, the aftermath with the media and Black women, and the opportunistic forces of the black misleadership class in media, politics and academia trying to capitalize on the grassroots effort done by poor black women on the ground.

Things discussed in this piece:

My twitter thread on the Alabama election: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/941346154750636032

Another twitter thread by me: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/941002908635680778

Thread on how black women are being turned into political mammies: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/941100228312170497

Mic.com's article describing the grassroots work done in Alabama and the responsible parties "Black women fueled a grassroots movement in Alabama — and may remake state politics": https://mic.com/articles/186790/black-women-fueled-a-grassroots-movement-in-alabama-and-may-remake-state-politics#.TxGfk56fi

Another article describing the work done on the ground: "How a former sharecropper in an SUV helped drive Doug Jones to victory in Alabama's Black Belt" http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/how_a_former_sharecropper_in_a.html

Another article describing the grassroots work done in Alabama "Black Women Are A Political Organizing Force. They’re Not Unicorns." https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-women-doug-jones_us_5a318dede4b091ca268508c2

Examples of figures coopting the voter turnout as a way to self-aggrandize and divert attention and money to themselves, cronies, and affiliated organizations like Angela Rye (https://twitter.com/OG_Humble_One/status/941326893835587586), Brittany Packnett https://www.thecut.com/2017/12/black-women-turnout-roy-moore-doug-jones.html, and Taylor Crumpton https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-support-black-women-after-the-alabama-senate-election

Twitter user Darkskintdostoevsky weighing in the opportunist celebrity activists coopting the narrative away from local Alabama grassroots organizers, here https://twitter.