Stacey Abrams is seeking the Georgia governor's seat for a second time. She comes to this race with experience of running for a statewide office and building coalitions over four years. She discusses the upcoming midterms with NPRItsBeenaMin.
On being an avatar for people's hopesYou are again so close to making history as the first Black woman governor ever in the United States. But in 2018, you were fresh on the national stage, and now you are — I think it's an understatement to say — very well-known and something of an icon for many people. This aspect of savior-hood that I have noticed people projecting onto you, that would be a lot for me.
And so across the board, we have unfinished business in this country. But we get distracted by the shiny object. Or worse, we get defeated by the longitudinal failure to solve these problems in a permanent way. And I'm not saying we'll finish it in 2022. But we've at least got to return to the narrative thread and say we've got work to do and it is possible to do that work if we don't lose hope in the fact that the system we are a part of still has to answer to us.
That's why I call Stacey Abrams a pragmatic progressive. I don't think that she's like,"I'm building a utopia." She's taking the facts that we have and understands the limitations and capacities of various people within the state of Georgia to move forward. And she's pushing them to think about a different vision. And it's not just whites, it's not just Blacks. It's a holistic vision of what Georgians could look for.
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