With Biden taking the lead in Georgia, I want to reiterate again how absolutely incredible Stacey Abrams is. After having her election stolen from her in 2018 by the Republicans in power, she registered and mobilized record numbers of new voters. She champions grassroots campaigning for voters. And she turned her state, a state with a horrific history of voter suppression, blue. I know votes are still being counted, but this phenomenal shift is because of the monumental efforts of Stacey Abrams.
And make no mistake, Biden taking the lead in Georgia and both Senate races going to the runoffs are because of the incredible voting efforts of Black people, especially Black women.
I also want to add that it’s not just Stacey–Black women have been doing this work for years, and Stacey helped elevate their efforts, which were done frequently IN SPITE OF the state Democratic party apparatus.
@lesbianbending mentioned how zuko & azula and david & alexis have similar vibes in some tags, it was too good not to draw lol
based on this scenealso here’s the dialogue if youre having troubling making it out:
as many profesors said to the class when talking about it:
idk how to explain to people outside latin america that during the cold war while everyone was praising the west for it’s freedom and progress compared to the horrors of the communist dictators in the east, thousands of latines where being murdered, tortured and silenced by capitalist dictatorships that were directly supported by the us and are the main reason why latin america is a “poor” region nowdays as they completely destroyed our economies. like, i know i’ve already talked about this before here but it’s so infuriating how everyone uses the “communism killed thousands of people/communism is a dictatorship” every fucking time while forgetting how almost every latin american country went through a capitalist dictatorship. like, it’s honestly amazing how those years of history are erased and ignored on porpuse by everyone because of first world capitalist propaganda that loves to paint capitalism as the only system that can secure freedom. that’s the reason many people condemn latin america of being “ruined by socialism”, because it is true many latin american countries remember the horrors of those dictatorships and are more socialist today thanks to it. but we weren’t ruined by socialism, it was capitalism (and colonialism) what made this to us and now everyone pretends it’s because we’re socialists.
“they call it the cold war because there wasnt any actual war happening. for them”
CHILENXS VAYAN A VOTARRRRR AHHHHHHHH