georgia governor race
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When White Politicians Profit Off Black Pain and Then Go Begging for Black Votes: Georgia Edition
Break out the sunglasses and SPF 50, everyone; it’s scorched-earth time in Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. The race between Stacey Evans—the white, 40-year-old married lawyer and former state representative from Smyrna, Ga.—and Stacey Abrams, the black, 44-year-old lawyer, former Georgia House Democratic Caucus leader, Spelman grad, author and former owner of the Freaknik name (seriously)—was…
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Black Stacey vs. White Stacey: A Lesson in Race Politics From Ga.
“I don’t wanna vote for her just because she’s black, you know?” I hate it when I hear things like that. It drives me nuts to hear the contortions that black folks will go through to explain, rationalize and then justify creating their own political impotence. Yet there I was sitting at a small neighborhood…