Summary of Stacey Abrams's Our Time Is Now

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 On November 15, 2018, I learned that I had lost the election by a margin of 54,723 votes. My conversation with my campaign manager, Lauren Groh-Wargo, was perfunctory. We discussed the hard truth of the likely outcome and made preparations for the next day.
#2 The campaign had sent volunteers and staff across Georgia to chase provisional ballots from voters who’d stood in line for hours, only to be told that they had insufficient ID. The numbers just didn’t add up to a 17,000-vote margin.
#3 I understood the next decision to be made was whether or not to contest the election results based on the evidence we had gathered. I decided not to, instead focusing on the voting system itself, which could be changed.
#4 Voter suppression is not a new phenomenon, and it isn’t entirely partisan. It has been used by both Democratic and Republican parties to win elections and keep voters from the other side.

Sujets

• Politics Magazine
• Political opportunity

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669350880
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Stacey Abrams's Our Time Is Now
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On November 15, 2018, I learned that I had lost the election by a margin of 54,723 votes. My conversation with my campaign manager, Lauren Groh-Wargo, was perfunctory. We discussed the hard truth of the likely outcome and made preparations for the next day.

#2

The campaign had sent volunteers and staff across Georgia to chase provisional ballots from voters who’d stood in line for hours, only to be told that they had insufficient ID. The numbers just didn’t add up to a 17,000-vote margin.

#3

I understood the next decision to be made was whether or not to contest the election results based on the evidence we had gathered. I decided not to, instead focusing on the voting system itself, which could be changed.

#4

Voter suppression is not a new phenomenon, and it isn’t entirely partisan. It has been used by both Democratic and Republican parties to win elections and keep voters from the other side.

#5

My father, Robert Abrams, is a preacher, and my mother, Carolyn Abrams, is a librarian. They have both ministers in their family, and their different styles of storytelling have shaped how I understand the nature of communication.

#6

While the Voting Rights Act would come the next year, equal rights for blacks was not achieved until much later.

#7

My parents were super-voters, going to all the elections regardless of who was running. They made me understand the importance of voting, but also the complexity of progress, and how what’s on paper is only meaningful if it’s brought to life through activism and attention.

#8

The right to vote is the most fundamental tenet of democracy, and the United States has historically failed to live up to its promise of equality.

#9

The notion of political community lay at the heart of this denunciation of black participation in American democracy, creating a private club where the only accepted members had to look and act the part.

#10

After the Civil War, from 1865 to 1877, the United States made a brief attempt at implementing democracy by enforcing the rights of black Americans. However, this was short-lived, and Vagrancy laws and other laws established the limits of black lives regardless of where they lived.

#11

Following the end of slavery, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 guaranteed equal treatment under the law, as well as labor and education rights for black Americans.

#12

The test was simple for white voters, while black voters had to unravel complex laws that were often difficult to comprehend.

#13

Following the end of slavery, black Americans were granted citizenship, but were still subject to the indignities and harms of not belonging in the Jim Crow era.

#14

While the civil rights movement made some progress, the crowning achievement for democracy was the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protected voting rights at the federal level and held certain states and jurisdictions accountable for discrimination.

#15

Following the Voting Rights Act, the Republican Party began a decades-long effort to win state legislatures and gubernatorial elections in order to control the 2011 redistricting process, how state legislatures outline the geographic boundaries of voting districts at the congressional, state, and local levels.