Can Our Leaders Stop Using Fear and Race to Divide Us?
Maybe we need to stop letting them
Living in Georgia amid a crucial run-off election, I became fatigued with the relentless campaign texts, mail, and political ads interrupting my video streaming. It ended with both Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff winning against David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. This campaign season, like the last four years, has been a rollercoaster. That’s to be expected. But, between David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, I have never seen more race-baiting and fear-mongering in my life.
The pandering of Perdue
Perdue mocking Kamala Harris’s name at a Trump rally made me cringe. He knows what her name is because he’s served in the Senate with her. Yet, he drew the racist bully card in front of a crowd who cheered him on.
He reminded us that racism is an acceptable currency in our politics.
Eallier, he released a campaign ad deliberately enlarging his opponent Jon Ossoff’s nose, playing on anti-semitic tropes, which he later downplayed. Most of his ads are scare tactics that use conservative buzz words like “radical” and “socialism.”
While he was busy attacking Ossoff and attempting to scare voters, he could not talk in detail about how he’s helped his constituents. The one item he did…
