Twitter Rejoices in Historic Georgia Election ResultsPhoto by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Imagesnews that Raphael Warnock won
Georgia’s Senate runoff election seemed too good to be true. His defeat of Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler marks a turning point for politics in the former Jim Crow South, potentially along with the U.S. Senate. Not only will a state with a deep history of racism and voter suppression soon have its first Black senator; the appallingly low number of Black senators in U.S. history will soon inch up to 11 in the totality of US history.
Celebrations started early, with tweets like Naomi Campbell’s “YES LORD!!! THANK YOU GOD!!!” at 2:48 a.m. She, like many others, thanked Stacey Abrams, who’s led the state’s voter mobilization efforts;
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