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A review by nina_rod
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams
5.0
I am just so grateful for Stacey Abrams and for her work. She came on my radar from her 2018 election. Now, I don’t know anything about Georgia politics, but I was good and mad. I felt her election was stolen from her by then Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who ran the elections at the time and purged voters and subjected black voters to long lines and limited provisional ballots.
And she did got a bit into that. But the depths of depravity of Brian Kemp knows no bounds. For example, Abrams recounted a story about how a black woman ran for local school board. And she ran in an off-year election, so she urged black voters to vote via absentee, something white voters in her district took advantage of. I mean, she needed votes and voters! And she won! And what does Kemp do? He arrests her for voter fraud! She lost her job over her arrest and she had to fight in the courts for two years to show no voter fraud was committed! What an ass.
Or another instance where Abrams recruited a popular citizen to run for local office. And what does Kemp do? He does an emergency redistricting so the man’s house is no longer in the district. Evil things going on in Georgia!
Kemp does things things all to hold power. Stacey Abrams writes... it’s all about power: Power is the right to be seen, the right to be heard and the right to direct the course of history and benefit from the future.
I heard about gerrymandering and voter suppression. But to hear how depraved the schemes get are so outrageous. Abrams own father was arrested for trying to register black people to vote, so suppression is still a modern problem, over a hundred years after black men were granted the right to vote. Battles must be fought over and over again for basic rights.
That’s why it infuriates me when people say if you just voted then... blah, blah, blah. They don’t realize the depraved methods gone to to keep people from voting.
Abrams book weaves together a great story. She talks about her governors race, politics in Georgia and also voting suppression through out the nation. And just when I thought the story was compelling, Abrams also talks about her work internationally with bringing about civic engagement.
I love Abrams. Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to her for her work. When she said Georgia was a battleground state, I didn’t believe her and many didn’t. But she believed and organized and helped win Georgia for Biden in 2020. And then she told me Georgia could win and get two Democratic senators in the runoff election in January 2021, putting Democratic control in the US Senate. And I didn’t believe, thinking that was too much to hope for. And she delivered! I love her so much! I’m sorry I didn’t believe. I wish all the best for whatever she wants to do next.
And she did got a bit into that. But the depths of depravity of Brian Kemp knows no bounds. For example, Abrams recounted a story about how a black woman ran for local school board. And she ran in an off-year election, so she urged black voters to vote via absentee, something white voters in her district took advantage of. I mean, she needed votes and voters! And she won! And what does Kemp do? He arrests her for voter fraud! She lost her job over her arrest and she had to fight in the courts for two years to show no voter fraud was committed! What an ass.
Or another instance where Abrams recruited a popular citizen to run for local office. And what does Kemp do? He does an emergency redistricting so the man’s house is no longer in the district. Evil things going on in Georgia!
Kemp does things things all to hold power. Stacey Abrams writes... it’s all about power: Power is the right to be seen, the right to be heard and the right to direct the course of history and benefit from the future.
I heard about gerrymandering and voter suppression. But to hear how depraved the schemes get are so outrageous. Abrams own father was arrested for trying to register black people to vote, so suppression is still a modern problem, over a hundred years after black men were granted the right to vote. Battles must be fought over and over again for basic rights.
That’s why it infuriates me when people say if you just voted then... blah, blah, blah. They don’t realize the depraved methods gone to to keep people from voting.
Abrams book weaves together a great story. She talks about her governors race, politics in Georgia and also voting suppression through out the nation. And just when I thought the story was compelling, Abrams also talks about her work internationally with bringing about civic engagement.
I love Abrams. Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to her for her work. When she said Georgia was a battleground state, I didn’t believe her and many didn’t. But she believed and organized and helped win Georgia for Biden in 2020. And then she told me Georgia could win and get two Democratic senators in the runoff election in January 2021, putting Democratic control in the US Senate. And I didn’t believe, thinking that was too much to hope for. And she delivered! I love her so much! I’m sorry I didn’t believe. I wish all the best for whatever she wants to do next.