Posted on 10/23/2018 9:57:23 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
ATLANTA — At a protest on the steps of the Georgia Capitol in 1992, Stacey Abrams, now the Democratic candidate for governor, joined in the burning of the state flag, which at the time incorporated the Confederate battle flag design and was viewed by many as a lingering symbol of white supremacy.
Ms. Abrams’s role in the protest, which took place around the end of her freshman year at Spelman College in Atlanta, has begun to emerge on social media on the eve of her first debate Tuesday with her Republican opponent, Secretary of State Brian Kemp. Mr. Kemp and his allies have sought to portray her as “too extreme for Georgia.”
If elected, Ms. Abrams, 44, would become the first black female governor in the nation. In August 2017, after the violent white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., Ms. Abrams injected the issue of Confederate memorials into the governor’s race by calling for the removal of the giant Confederate carving on Stone Mountain, a granite outcropping east of Atlanta, noting, correctly, its ties to white supremacy and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan.
Mr. Kemp, who is white, has said that Georgians should not “attempt to rewrite” the past, and said he would protect the monument from “the radical left.”
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This woman can’t even balance a checkbook!
Slimes are reporting this!? Ruh roh
I suspect this will help, not hurt her. She’s on the winning side of the argument to change the state flag. An argument now settled. In the debate, she’ll likely give, from what I’ve read, an in-your-face response. The Republican is a peril, defend the old flag and offend modern Republicans, moderates, and cross-over Democrats, else agree with the flag change and offend those defending the flag for racism or culture or whatever. The Republican loses on this topic.
Doesn’t matter. Those that would vote for her would find this to be a badge of honor. Those that wouldn’t vote for her, nothing will change.
Yes, and this is why she'd like to reprise the debate over the state flag. Great distraction.
And those undecided this just hurts her
True.
Republicans should not engage in the Confederate debate. It is too toxic and it alienates suburban voters-the heart of the GOP.
Talk about jobs, jobs, jobs.
She’s getting nothing but praise on Twitter for this. Will help her GOTV in the hoods, and suburban white women don’t care.
Which is exactly why the NEW YORK TIMES released the story. PLEASE don't fall for the trap, GOP! Stay focused on her DIS-qualifications.
In today’s environment, if you’re undecided, you’re missing a few cards from the deck. That being the case, still not sure it matters.
Yet she called for demolishing Stone Mountain just last year.
This woman is a nut.
“She’s getting nothing but praise on Twitter for this.”
And that’s because Twitter is for Twits! You can’t revise history - it is what it was and always will be. Destroying a work of art, regardless of the subject, changes nothing. It only shows how stupid some people can be.
Nah, not at all. Think what you meant to say was that left-wing media will bash republicans who defend our cultural heritage. If so, then i agree. Would be entertaining to see this nutjob up on a ladder with a chisel trying to erase Stone Mountain. God bless RELee,President Davis and Stonewall Jackson, They earned their spot there.
I dont think this changes anything. Flag supporters would not be voting for her anyway and flag opponents not likely to vote for Kemp.
the picture indicates she baaalooooonnnneeeeeddddd quite a bit in 20 years (about 10 lb/year average)
Wasn’t it a 1956 flag, with the confederate symbol added as an ‘F-U’ post Brown Vs Board of Education? Might be different if it was the original state flag.
Still, stupid on her part I think, I don’t care for disrespecting history.
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