stacey evans
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It’s Been 100 Days and Atlanta’s Still Got a Mayor Named Keisha
Once Donald Trump got into office (with fewer votes than Hillary Clinton) and threw the country into chaos, suddenly Americans started paying attention to elections. The pundits were obsessed with the Virginia gubernatorial elections, the resistance was all over the Jon Ossoff special election in Georgia, and everyone who had a teenage daughter cared about…
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Stacey Abrams’ Campaign Was the Hogwarts School for Black Girl Magic
There was an idea, hatched back in 2017, of bringing together a group of remarkable people to see if they could be something more; to see if they could work together when we needed them; to fight the battles we never could. … They were the Stacey Abrams campaign for governor of Georgia …. Forgive…
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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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White Candidate for Georgia Governor Basically Does MLK Blackface
Bless her heart; she’s trying. Can we just begin by pointing out that Stacey Evans, the 39-year-old white lawyer and former Georgia state representative running to be the Democratic nominee for governor, is TRYING HER BEST [insert clap emojis]? She’s trying in that way your sister-in-law from Minnesota tried to make cornbread last Thanksgiving. She’s…
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Hey, I Can Play This Game Too, Guys
I have a confession to make. I’m black. I’m a black guy with black parents and black relatives and even some black friends. I also work at Morgan State, a historically black university. And since we’re keeping it 100, I’m the political editor at The Root, which you are reading right now, and which 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…