Christine Emba Jan 6, 2021
Stacey Abrams did it.
The former lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate has turned Georgia, once reliably red, to blue. Due in large part to the tireless organizing of Abrams and many other Black women, Georgians helped elect Democrat Joe Biden to the presidency and — after a nail-biting runoff election — will send Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to the Senate.
In response, social media has overflowed with paeans to Black women. A sample: “Black women saved our republic”! “Stacey Abrams is a hero”! “Black women saved our asses. We don’t deserve them.” “THANK YOU BLACK WOMEN.” As producer Jonquilyn Hill wrote on Twitter: “The ‘Black women save us’ stuff from a certain subset of twitter gets really strange really fast. Quickly feels like the mammy and magical Negro tropes.”
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