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ZORA and The Blackness present Moonrakers 2020
Stacey Abrams Has Become the Political Hero America Needs
A staunch advocate for voting rights, she embodies what it means to be a political savior
The greatest superheroes always have a secret identity; the person who they are when they’re not saving the world in a cape or spandex or mechanical suit with parts from Best Buy. Usually the more unassuming the secret identity, the more amazing the hero actually is. Peter Parker is a poor kid from Queens but also Spider-Man. Ororo Munroe is a homeless pickpocket in Egypt until she becomes Storm of the X-Men. Clark Kent is the biggest nerd of all, but he can leap tall buildings in a single bound as Superman.
Ordinary beginnings make for great heroes. That’s why in the last year, Stacey Abrams has become the political hero that Black America always wanted and that White America didn’t know it needed.
As origin stories go, Abrams’ isn’t all that shocking. She wasn’t born into wealth or extreme poverty or with superhuman powers but into a regular middle-class Black family. She has…
