{"id":1726728,"date":"2022-11-06T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726728"},"modified":"2022-11-06T22:50:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T03:50:46","slug":"ken-blackwell-stacey-abrams-is-wrong-for-georgia-and-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-blackwell-stacey-abrams-is-wrong-for-georgia-and-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Blackwell: Stacey Abrams Is Wrong For Georgia and America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fken-blackwell-stacey-abrams-is-wrong-for-georgia-and-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726728&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/f49740bd-ce79-4d07-ab7b-79b6ce9ddf74.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Stacey Abrams is running for Governor of Georgia again this year, a role she has repeatedly said she actually won in 2018. But I don\u2019t want to talk about Ms. Abrams being an \u201celection denier,\u201d which she clearly is. I want to talk about something near and dear to Ms. Abrams: \u201cbarriers to access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abrams led the nationwide mob, including Major League Baseball, which attacked Georgia\u2019s 2021 election reform law as an effort by \u201cracists\u201d to suppress the vote among people of color like her and me. That stunt cost the majority-Black community of Atlanta around <a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2021\/04\/04\/mlb-star-game-cost-georgia-100-million&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667667549123000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0E7skwrDAf9Yf0EJBNU_3g\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2021\/04\/04\/mlb-star-game-cost-georgia-100-million\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$100 million<\/a> in lost revenue. Local Black business owners, who had been excitedly preparing for a huge influx of customers, were devastated \u2013 as were their employees, who had been eagerly anticipating inflated tips and overtime pay.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden took Ms. Abrams\u2019 lead and on May 26, 2021 called the new Georgia voting laws \u201cJim Crow in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century\u201d and \u201cJim Crow 2.0.\u201d All these histrionics were based on the fact that the law required voters to present some form of identification before voting and prohibited outside groups from using refreshments as a form of electioneering. Supposedly, these were evil Republican schemes to depress minority turnout.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams and the activist groups she controls have spent millions of dollars attacking Georgia\u2019s new voting laws in court, forcing Georgia taxpayers to cover seven-figure legal bills even though her challenges ultimately proved that there was nothing discriminatory about the laws.<\/p>\n<p>The real world evidence also disproves Abrams\u2019 hysterical claims. Already, voting in the mid-term elections in Georgia is at an <a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/sos.ga.gov\/news\/georgia-voters-shatter-second-presidential-turnout-record-saturday&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667667549124000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3Vo6z3n5m5rXK7VE22yFy5\" href=\"https:\/\/sos.ga.gov\/news\/georgia-voters-shatter-second-presidential-turnout-record-saturday\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all-time high<\/a>, surpassing turnout in the hotly-contested 2020 presidential election and the 2018 midterms. Did that make Ms. Abrams rethink her earlier charges of racism regarding the new voting law? No: she just changed a few notes in her \u201cwoe is me\u201d tune.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Abrams, desperate to revive her sinking chances of replacing Governor Brian Kemp, is now pivoting to say that voter suppression of Black people is not about voter turnout, but rather about \u201cbarriers to access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What I wish Ms. Abrams would talk about are the real \u201cbarriers to access\u201d that people of color face today, including many constructed by ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>For me, the initial \u201cbarrier\u201d is the continued destruction of the nuclear family, and it is a barrier that helps create or impact all other barriers. <a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theblackwallsttimes.com\/2017\/07\/20\/black-family-structure-in-decline-since-the-1960s-the-home-effect\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667667549124000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2rGush_zJeNYkrn3pNhTKM\" href=\"https:\/\/theblackwallsttimes.com\/2017\/07\/20\/black-family-structure-in-decline-since-the-1960s-the-home-effect\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>, single-parent homes &#8212; typically just the mother &#8212; among Blacks increased from 22 to 55 percent between 1960 and 2013 and today stands at a depressing 65-70 percent. Much of the progress we made during the 1960\u2019s civil rights crusade has effectively been undone by this trend.<\/p>\n<p>What typically follows from this is poverty and a subsequent \u201cbarrier to access\u201d of quality education and parental involvement in that education. In Black America, a lack of quality, sustained education often leads to even more poverty or prison, and sometimes both, especially among young Black men.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cbarrier to access\u201d of safe communities is growing more dire in this country, especially in urban communities \u2013 which is code for \u201cBlack neighborhoods.\u201d We all watched in the 2020 Summer of Love as \u201cpeaceful protestors\u201d \u2013 Black and White \u2013 looted, burned, injured, and murdered their way through so many communities in America. We heard the ridiculous screams of \u201cPigs in a blanket; Fry \u2018em like bacon\u201d and calls for the defunding or \u201cre-imagining\u201d of police by people who had no clue what sort of harm they were seeding with their words and acts of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Did Stacy Abrams speak out against the growing barrier to safe communities? Of course not \u2013 in fact, she <a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/06\/stacey-abrams-on-the-george-floyd-police-brutality-protests.html&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667667549124000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2im-c3LAbanP8OU-UPlVz8\" href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/06\/stacey-abrams-on-the-george-floyd-police-brutality-protests.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">justified<\/a> the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The increasing degradation of Black communities via poverty and crime has helped lead to a \u201cbarrier to access\u201d of quality health care in Black communities. And, increasingly, there is a \u201cbarrier to access\u201d to quality shopping for food and daily essentials as retailers are saying \u201cNo More\u201d to looting, shop lifting, and violent crime and moving out of urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>There are more \u201cbarriers to access\u201d Stacy Abrams ignores in her self-absorbed desire for national prominence. There is one that literally makes me weep: the \u201cbarrier to access\u201d to life. Ms. Abrams\u2019 aggressive pro-abortion stance has taken an almost ghoulish turn lately. Last week she declared that abortion was a way to combat the runaway inflation crippling Georgians and the rest of our nation. That notion not only defies Economics 101, but also Humanity 101.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s stop taking Stacey Abrams and her crocodile tears seriously. She refuses to take a stand against the very real \u201cbarriers to access\u201d afflicting the Black community because she would rather focus on promoting her lies about voting rights. As the turnout numbers demonstrate very clear, Georgia\u2019s new voting laws succeeded in their goal of making it easy to vote, but to cheat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacey Abrams is running for Governor of Georgia again this year, a role she has repeatedly said she actually won in 2018. 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