Stacey Abrams Run For Governor Is Inspiring Young, Black College Students Across Georgia

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On May 22, it was announced that Democrat Stacey Abrams won the Georgia primary, making her a candidate to become the first black female governor in the country. 

The mere existence of Stacey Abrams’s campaign was shocking to me as a Black student. We elected Atlanta’s second Black female mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, this year, but I was still skeptical of Stacey Abrams winning. However, Bottoms’s election made sense in diverse and progressive Atlanta, and she came up in a social group that encourages Black women to run for public office... 

In March, I joined 1,200 Black women for Delta Days at the nation’s capitol, in Washington, D.C. Delta Days is our annual legislative conference to increase members’ involvement in national public policymaking, and it’s where I learned how to increase voter registration and to support Black women running for office...  

“Don’t underestimate the stuff that isn’t glamorous...often the most valuable things you can do for a cause, particularly on the local level, are the less exciting, glamorous things. Going door-to-door in the boiling heat or spending hours making phone calls to voters aren’t exactly fun, but they’re genuinely some of the most impactful activities out there, and that’s often really how you make a difference,” Davis says.

~TEENVOGUE.COM

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