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Racist Robocalls in Florida:

An assertion by a white gubernatorial candidate that Florida voters can't afford to "monkey this up" by voting for his black opponent was widely viewed as a "dog whistle" to rally racists.

If it were a dog whistle — and GOP candidate Ron DeSantis denies any racial intent against Democrat Andrew Gillum — then a jungle music-scored robo-call that has circulated in Florida is more akin to a bullhorn.

If nothing else, the minute-long audio clip is a clear sign of how quickly racism — subtle in some cases, overt in others — has entered the contest to determine who will lead Florida.

"Well, hello there,” the call begins as the sounds of drums and monkeys can be heard in the background, according to the New York Times. “I is Andrew Gillum."

"We Negroes . . . done made mud huts while white folk waste a bunch of time making their home out of wood an' stone."

The speaker goes on to say he'll pass a law letting African Americans evade arrest “if the Negro know fo' sho' he didn't do nothin'."


And bigots attempt to profit off the death of Mollie Tibbits

The tragic death of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts has become an ugly right-wing talking point for politicians eager to point to the college student's suspected killer, a Mexican named Cristhian Rivera, as a reason to bolster anti-immigration policies in the country. But now it appears that a neo-Nazi has taken it one step further by targeting Iowans with racist robocalls about her death.

A reader of the local Iowa Starting Line newspaper sent in a recording of the message he received on Tuesday at around 8 PM. In it, a man who speaks in the same cadence as the host of neo-Nazi podcast The Road to Power, says that Tibbetts would call for genocide if she were still alive and that her family, who have begged politicians and white supremacists not to use their relative's death as racist propaganda, are wrong. At one point, it even uses a female voice actor to impersonate Tibbetts's voice. Here's the transcript of the recorded call, per the Starting Line, below:

“The body of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts was found in a corn field after she was stabbed to death by an invader from Mexico. A biological hybrid of white and savage Aztec ancestors, who also killed with knives during their mass human sacrifices on top of pyramids they didn’t build.

Some relatives of Mollie Tibbetts are implying that despite having been murdered by a non-white, savage intruder, she would still support the invasion of America by a brown horde currently at a staggering 58 million. But you know in your heart they are wrong.

If after her life has now been brutally stolen from her, she could be brought back to life for just one moment and asked, ‘What do you think now?’ Mollie Tibbetts would say, ‘Kill them all.’

We don’t have to kill them all, but we do have to deport them all. The Aztec hybrids, known as Mestizos, are low-IQ, bottom-feeding savages, and is why the countries they infest are crime-ridden failures. That’s now America’s fate too unless we re-found America as whites-only and get rid of them now! Every last one!

This message paid for by The Road To Power dot com.”

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