Full props to Stacey Abrams!
NEW: A sweeping lawsuit against Georgia alleging racial discrimination in the administration of the 2018 election can move forward, a federal judge ruled today. The lawsuit was filed by the Stacey Abrams org @fairfightaction #gapol
— Johnny Kauffman (@JohnnyIK) May 30, 2019
Lawyers representing the office of Republican SoS Brad Raffensperger had asked for the case to be dismissed. This is a large case, and the judge appears to have basically ruled in favor of @fairfightaction across the board, except on one technicality. #gapol
— Johnny Kauffman (@JohnnyIK) May 30, 2019
Quick story here: https://t.co/GhlW6rX1tf
— Johnny Kauffman (@JohnnyIK) May 30, 2019
Which reminded me, I hadn’t yet found a chance to post this great Washington Post profile, “Stacey Abrams: Being a black woman in politics isn’t ‘some fatal diagnosis’”:
…In your book you describe just showing up to a [Spelman College] board of trustees meeting [while a student there]. Why did you crash it, and what did they make of you?
I did not understand why my tuition had to go up every year. I did not understand why financial aid did not keep pace with tuition. So I showed up to the meeting. When [Spelman president Johnnetta Cole] allowed me in, the person I sat beside was a partner at an investment firm. I didn’t know what an investment firm was. But he was very kind. Everyone was. He let me sit beside him and shifted his notebook over to me. And I’m looking at all of these numbers; I had no idea what I was looking at. And he leaned over and started explaining financial statements to me.
Then there was the highest-ranking woman at Coca-Cola. She started telling me things. And the president of Ben & Jerry’s. They saw it as an opportunity to educate me, and I was just so hungry for information. I was listening and learning so much so that over time, they forgot that I sort of barged in. They started telling me when the meetings were. And I eventually got my own notebook.
Sitting in those board meetings was incredibly eye-opening. It showed me that these things weren’t impossible to know. And you didn’t have to be “to the manner born” to learn. You just had to work harder…
To quote the great Shirley Chisholm: If there’s not a seat for you at the table, bring a folding chair!
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