CS 056: Sweet Home Alabama (12/18/2017) (Patreon)

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.com/daniecal/status/941324456470786048, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941325047850926081, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941365868453175302, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941370471072677888, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941364373792071680, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941363666909151232, here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941333445258633216, and here https://twitter.com/daniecal/status/941334067311558656
• Darkskintdostoevsky's list of all the ways to actually support the people and organizations who helped to make 
• The conditions for black people in Alabama currently, "Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-lowndes-county-alabama-water-waste-treatment-poverty; "UN poverty official touring Alabama's Black Belt: 'I haven't seen this' in the First World" http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/un_poverty_official_touring_al.html
• Robin Thede's post-election black women superhero movie tweet https://twitter.com/robinthede/status/940788397597130752
• Jemele Hill calling Robin Roberts "Auntie Robin" https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/941420670566715393