Stacey Abrams insists that other red states can turn blue after Georgia was flipped during the 2020 election – as she turns her hand from politics to posing while starring on the cover of Marie Claire’s latest issue.
via: The Grio
Stacey Abrams sat down with Marie Claire for its April cover story and she did not hold back. The voting rights advocate candidly spoke about the Capitol insurrection, how she views her personal wins and her new favorite hobby outside of changing history.
“I’m certainly always dismayed by the level of treachery that we saw on [January 6], but I wouldn’t say that that is new,” said Abrams to journalist Ashley C. Ford for the cover.
Unlike many, Abrams was not surprised by the menacing riot that left five dead. She says it’s a reflection of history.
“When I see the surprise, the aghast reaction, I think what people are reacting to is the immediacy of their interaction with this, but they forget about the years of conditioned exposure that so many more of us have lived with.”
“I grew up in the state of Mississippi, where the Confederate battle flag was the state flag,” she adds. “I moved to Georgia, where the Confederate battle flag was incorporated into the state flag, where you could not enter a bank or the state capitol without this waving notion of what you should expect inside. I don’t have the capacity for surprise at this.”
📎 COMMENTS 👀 ☝️👆👈👉✍️🤳 DROP YOUR OPINIONS
0 Comments