It began when Democrat ‘star’ and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Georgia Stacey Abrams retweeted photos of herself visiting a primary school in Atlanta. The photo was initially tweeted by the principal of that school.
She gushed over the photos with a caption "Spending time
with Glennwood’s amazing students, faculty and staff ranks as spectacular,
delightful and outstanding,"
The photos swiftly went viral and Abrams was the recipient of
a considerable backlash.
The reason was that Abrams, a fanatical proponent of
Covid-19 masks mandates, was not wearing a mask herself as she posed surrounded
by masked young school children. A few other photos emerged that showed Abrams
barefaced while the school staff and children were masked.
But instead of issuing an apology and a pledge to do practice what she
preaches, an attempt for a cover-up ensued.
Abrams deleted her quote-tweet and so did the school
principal.
But that did little to improve her situation.
Hence Abram, did what most Democrats do at the drop of a hat,
she played the race card.
The following statement was posted on her Instagram page
“It is shameful that our opponents are using a Black History
Month reading event for Georgia children as the impetus for a false political
attack..”
There’s an old saying “when you are in a pit, you stop
digging”
No such luck for Abrams.
Her campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo attempted
to defend her boss with a claim that Abrams “wore a mask to the event, and
removed it at the podium so she could be heard by students watching remotely
and for photos, but only with folks who were masked”
This was a blatant lie and deceived nobody.
In the age of social media, politics is all about appearance.
Abram’s advisors should have asked her to be masked, at least for the photos. Following the outrage, Abram’s advisors should have told her that in the age of social media nothing can be totally erased, and hence a sincere apology would have served her better.
It is perplexing that obvious mistakes occur in a modern
campaign.
Perhaps the self-righteous Abrams and her team think they can never err. Maybe they think the rules don’t apply to them. Perhaps her advisors are
sycophants who hesitate to state unpleasant truths because they know, like most
Democrats, Abrams abhors hearing contrarian perspectives.
Since Abrams claims to stand for science, she should read a recent study by York University in the UK that states that masks make it difficult for children to recognize faces and could cause psychological problems that affect their ability to socialize and make friends.
Also, prolonged wearing of Covid-19 masks can cause
respiratory problems because the individual ends up inhaling his own
exhalations causing a reducing the oxygen intake and causing a build-up of carbon dioxide
levels in the body.
Abrams hence joins the ignominious ranks of hypocrites such as
LA Mayor Eric
Garcetti, who posed for a photo with Magic Johnson bare-faced, AOC who
was photographed maskless
both as she partied in Florida and at the 2021
NYC MET Gala where the staff was masked, Gov. Newsom who violated
the very COVID rules that he has imposed on Californians to dine with
friends at a fancy restaurant in LA, and Barack Obama who was caught bare-faced
surrounded by masked construction workers at the site of his Hawaii
mansion.
The result of these dual standards is that it intensifies the
skepticism relating to Covid-19 mandates about the masks and the vaccines and
makes people wonder if it is an excuse to grab more power.
This has also created a new and more blatant class divide. The
‘powerful’ place themselves above the laws they make for citizens. Citizens run
the risk of being fired or fined or reprimanded by authorities or
even jailed (in Singapore) merely for showing their bare face.
The Democrats spend their every breathing minute bloviating
about their concern for the working class and the persecuted minorities, yet it
is they who are leading this new and almost systemic discriminatory practice.
Also, this Democrat instinct of playing the race card to shut
down their opponents has resulted in the trivialization of bigotry. The charge
of racism is no longer taken seriously. People are skeptical when they learn
about race-based hate crimes in the news. People are desensitized because if
everything is racism, nothing is. The beneficiaries of these overstatements and
fabrications are real bigots.
How unfortunate that this is occurring during Black history
month.
It has to be remembered that Stacy Abrams's path to ‘stardom’
began with her
refusal to concede when the 2018 Georgia
governor's race to Republican candidate Brian Kemp.
Abram’s rose to bigger ‘stardom’ when she founded two
nonprofits called ‘Fair
Count’ and ‘Fair Fight Action’ that registered an estimated 800,000
new voters, with a focus on minority voters. Perhaps it was this was
implicit coercion to vote for Biden?
It enabled Abrams to be among the black female candidates
considered for the position of Biden’s running mate. Abram
made a case for herself rather immodestly claiming she had “the
experience and temperament needed to be successful in the role.”
In the end, Biden wisely chose Kamala Harris, whose ineptitude
and constant verbal gaffes make Biden look like the smart and energetic one.
Had he chosen the aggressive and publicity-hungry Abrams, she probably would
have unseated Biden by now.
Hopefully, the voters in Georgia will see through all the
charades and vote wisely.
Also, if any good has to come out of this disgraceful display
by Abrams, it should lead the powers that be in Georgia to liberate the state's
schooling going public from their suffocating masks.
This article also appears on American Thinker
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