![]() ![]() The Republican party lost their minds as a result. While Abrams was running for Georgia governor, she said in an interview with Cosmopolitan that she plans to be president one day. Abrams pointed to the desanctification of religious spaces, and particularly not reacting with policy after armed killers enter places of worship, as “an example of how we devalue faith.” She criticized current political leaders for “aggregating power without aggregated purpose to that power.”Īnother shooting had occurred earlier that day at a synagogue in California, killing one person and injuring three. The Republican party’s extraction of “rhetoric, not the principles” of faith resulted in the Democrats becoming the “party of everyone else.”Ībrams noted that “service is something you do every day” and pointed out that politicians do not act on the values they claim to represent. She elaborated: this “weaponization” was the Republican party’s means of drawing in religious voters to turn out for Republican candidates. When asked about Democrats abandoning Abrams replied: “It's not that the Democrats’ abandoned faith as much as it was that Republicans’ weaponized faith.” When Abrams and her siblings pointed out that their family was oftentimes as poor as the people they helped, her father’s reply was “having nothing is not an excuse for doing nothing.” Mitchell began by asking about the three pillars of education, faith, and service outlined in Abrams’s book, Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change.Ībrams detailed how her parents prioritized education, faith, and service and “broke beyond what history told them they were capable of.” Growing up in Mississippi, Abrams’s parents insisted that their children go to school, attend church every Sunday, and be of service to those in poverty. Award winning journalist Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun Times lead the conversation. Lightfoot commended Abrams for “setting the course of the narrative” and described her as an “iconic, towering, and powerful leader.”Īfter Mayor-elect Lightfoot’s introduction, Stacey Abrams came on stage to a standing ovation. The lecture began with a surprise introduction by Lori Lightfoot, the first African American woman elected to mayor of Chicago. As nominee, Abrams won more votes than any Democrat in the state’s history.Ībrams has been receiving national attention lately: she is rumoured to a bid for Georgia’s contested Senate seat in 2020. Alter lecture, which centers women pioneers in social action and public service, at University of Illinois at Chicago.Īfter serving eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, Stacey Abrams won the 2018 Democratic nomination for Governor of Georgia, the first Black woman to take a gubernatorial nomination from a major party. On April 27, 2019, Chicago Humanities Festival hosted Stacey Abrams for the annual Joanne H. ![]()
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