Racist robocalls attack Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum
A white supremacy group is placing racist robocalls that attack Democrat Andrew Gillum, the first Black candidate for governor to be nominated by either party for state office in Florida.
The New York Times obtained the audio from a one-minute robocall placed last week. In the call, a voice imitating minstrel performers claimed to be Gillum over drum and monkey sounds. “Well, hello there,” it starts. “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,” it continued, according to the Washington Post.
The phone campaign also asked for votes and discussed the policing of Black people. It ended with a statement that it was funded by Road to Power, a white supremacist and anti-Semitic group that runs a “ri...