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Stacey Abrams Instagram – Disability Voting Rights Week: Here’s what you need to know.

Stacey Abrams Instagram - Disability Voting Rights Week: Here’s what you need to know.

Stacey Abrams Instagram – Disability Voting Rights Week: Here’s what you need to know. | Posted on 15/Sep/2022 21:47:47

Stacey Abrams Instagram – My dad, the incredible Rev. Robert Abrams, is the first feminist I ever knew. He raised his four daughters and two sons to believe in our capacity to do anything – to be anything – we wanted. Gender, like race, were never going to be permanent obstacles for us. The world, he warned us, would not always see us or believe in us, but he did. Even as he labored as a shipyard worker, he imagined great futures for his children, never doubting they’d come to pass. Dad grew up in Mississippi, in the segregated South, with undiagnosed dyslexia. Unable to read at grade level, he memorized his way through school, determined to learn and defy the odds. Despite being dismissed by his teachers and mocked by his peers, my dad not only finished high school; he became the first man in his family to go to college. Later, at the age of 40, he and my mother entered the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, where they earned their Masters of Divinity. My dad is committed to uplifting those around him. Over the years, I have watched him practice what he preaches. Service to hundreds of homeless men and women in the soup kitchen at St. Mark United Methodist Church in Midtown. Mentorship for troubled young men and standing up to the powerful despite the odds. Whether through his dedication to the prison ministry or his protests to guarantee a living wage for hourly workers, my father believes in doing right by others. Every day. A Black man raised me to dream and plan and do – whether that was starting my first business or running for governor. Because of him, I am. And I’ll never do less than he expects.
Stacey Abrams Instagram – When my mother was in third grade, she dropped out of her underfunded, segregated elementary school in Mississippi and didn’t plan on returning. Ever. Weeks passed, and soon, she had missed so many days, she was sure she’d be held back a grade level. Mom considered her academic career over. But Miss Gert, her family’s next-door neighbor, knew my mom was capable of more. And she understood that sometimes, we need others to have faith in us, to invest in us, so we can believe in ourselves. She urged my mom not to give up, not to be afraid of going back even if she had fallen behind. Eventually, my mom took Miss Gert’s advice and summoned up the courage to go back to school. She expected to repeat third grade. But after she walked into the principal’s office, she learned that when she dropped out, one of her former teachers had written a note: “If Carolyn Hall ever comes back to school, move her on to the next grade. She’s smart enough.” Mom returned to school and eventually walked across the stage as valedictorian of her high school. A quarter-century later, she watched her daughter walk across the stage as valedictorian of Avondale High School in DeKalb County. My mom was the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school, the first in her family to go to college and grad school, and later on, she served as a United Methodist minister, after she and my dad graduated from divinity school at Emory University. My mom is a trailblazer. A caregiver. My inspiration. She will always be the reason why I’m committed to serving others, why I will always fight for public education, and why I will never allow anyone to dampen our ambition or lower our vision. Because I have faith — and I believe.

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