Black Voters Showed They Matter In Georgia. Here's How Activists Are Trying To Keep It That Way

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By News07trends Last updated Mar 28, 2021

On an unseasonably muggy February afternoon, a tour bus emblazoned with “We acquired energy” snaked by Warner Robins. Wrapped within the pan-African colours of pink, black and inexperienced, it was an exuberant ode to Black political clout.

Residents, virtually all of them Black, greeted the Black Voters Matter coach like an outdated good friend because it blared its horn, main a caravan previous low-slung bungalows and pink brick ranch homes. Males, girls and youngsters broke from their Sunday socializing to wave, run alongside it and lift clenched fists of Black energy.

The bus had been by these leafy streets earlier than, within the frenetic run-up to the 2020 presidential and Senate races in Georgia. Its presence right here made nationwide, even worldwide information.

Weeks later it was again, not on a victory lap for Democratic wins in these nationwide races however to gin up curiosity in a far sleepier marketing campaign: a particular election for a Metropolis Council seat on this small city 100 miles south of Atlanta.

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