OPINION:
J.K. Rowling, the author of the “Harry Potter” series that was made into several movies, weighed in on the Alabama Senate election to say Roy Moore, who spoke of how God was in control during his explanation to supporters about his refusal to concede, was indeed correct — that God was definitely in control.
It was her next statement that was the eyebrow raiser.
Rowling, in a tweet, added, as Breitbart noted: “What [Moore] didn’t realise was, She’s black.”
God is a black woman?
This is Rowling’s full tweet, which linked to a CNN Twitter post of Moore’s speech on why he wasn’t conceding: “Narrator’s voice: Roy was right. God was in control. What he didn’t realise was, She’s black.”
Rowling’s reference was no doubt likely to the fact that blacks voted for Democrat Doug Jones with a 96 percent voice — and of that, 98 percent were black women.
But blasphemy, anyone?
Rowling’s previously used her Twitter account to make politically charged comments about President Donald Trump. Case-in-point: In 2015, Trump, angered by radical Islamic terror attacks, called for the barring of Muslims from the United States.
Rowling responded with this tweet: “How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.”
Voldemort, of course, is one of Rowling’s fictional villains in the “Harry Potter” series.
And that’s the world Rowling should perhaps stick with — fictional.
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