Posted on 10/29/2018 7:09:17 PM PDT by Trump20162020
For a few hours on Saturday morning, I felt good about America. I was at a smallish rally in the Atlanta suburb of Riverdale, listening to Democratic politicians including Senator Kamala Harris and Georgias Stacey Abrams, who could become the first African-American female governor in American history. Abrams told a story she often repeats on the campaign trail, about being 17 and arriving at the governors mansion for a reception for Georgias high school valedictorians.
Her family didnt have a car, and she described getting off the bus and walking with her parents along a driveway to a set of black gates. A guard approached, and she remembered him saying, This is a private event you dont belong here.
Though they were eventually let in, Abrams recalled little of the event itself. The only clear memory I have of that day is a man standing in front of the most powerful place in Georgia, looking at me and telling me I dont belong, she said. But with your help in 10 days we will open those gates wide! The crowd stood, applauding and cheering, as Abrams said, Because this is our Georgia!
Right now America is tearing itself apart as an embittered white conservative minority clings to power, terrified at being swamped by a new multiracial polyglot majority. The divide feels especially stark in Georgia, where the midterm election is a battle between Trumpist reaction and the multicultural America whose emergence the right is trying, at all costs, to forestall.
Abramss goal is to put together a coalition of African-American and other minority voters and white liberals. The potential is there; Georgia is less than 53 percent non-Hispanic white. Georgia is a blue state if everybody votes, DuBose Porter, chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia, told me.
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Diversity is where nations go to die.
Oh, spare me.
I remember when riverdale was pretty nice back in the late 70s early 80s and then in moved the riff raff and it turned to shite pure shite.You do not drive through there unless you have to and you better be armed due to car jackings.
I just dont see the people of Georgia electing this race baiting commie cow.She is getting desperate using these race stories but it is all she has oh and that big bag of McDonalds.
An “embittered conservative white minority clings to power...”
Amazing how the minority has power, isn’t it?
NYT really should invest in some logic courses as basic training for its fake news writers.
New York Times has been stark raving mad for the past two or three years. They were always biased but now they are anti-Trump propaganda only, in every lead, in every headline, in every caption, of course in every op-ed. It’s because Trump killed 6 million people. Oh wait.
I wonder if this happened before or after that photo
of her burning the Georgia State Flag?
How in the world GA Women are you voting for this moronic socialist?
STOP voting with your genitalia. Pay attention to who the Dem candidate REALLY is, not just the fact she is black and a woman.
Look at the crazy insane radicals who are her poltical allies. They are her allies because she thinks just like they do. She shares the same poltical views as she does
THINK before you vote instead of voting your emotions.
In 1980 a democrat governor George Busbee would dare risk the optics she describes
I seriously doubt it
Could have been do you have an invitation or let me check the list
Has morphed into this black victimhood legend
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