Forgive me, but I need to share my joy with my DKos family.
I woke up to this news and I cried. I laid in bed listening to Ray Charles sing “Georgia On My Mind” and I started bawlin’. Flat out cried like a baby, sobbing.
It wasn’t about the relief of Trump losing, but rather the exquisite beauty of it being a deep southern slave state to do it. I was just overwhelmed with the the sweet joy of earned rewards after decades of collective work and sacrifice to allow today to happen. I am not African American, but damn it, I’m American! This is my country, and our sins are my sins. But our victories are my victories as well.
Like many of you, I have spent much of my life fighting for justice (50 years for me). This is one of those moments that will never be forgotten. Detroit is my home. Philly is where I first started to work in nonprofits fighting for racial justice. And now formerly deep-red Georgia, on the back of Atlanta and Clayton County, the district that John Lewis represented for 33 years, stands up and says to America that we are taking what is ours. The blessings and rights of America are for us as well. This has been earned with years of blood and worn out working boots. What a moment of joy!
Forgive my burst of emotion this morning, but I needed to share this joy — thanks DKos Fam!
And might I add: I think the GA Senate runoff strategy should run straight through Loeffler and Perdue’s support for Trump’s response to this election. Get them on the record either way, and play that NONSTOP until January 5th.