Atlanta Mayor KeishaBottoms doesn't shy away from standing up for what she thinks is right—and calling out what’s wrong. ❤️
from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, over 83 percent of those diagnosed with coronavirus are black. “We continue to see much higher rates of infection and death occurring among African Americans than in other communities. We need to do much more to close the income and health gaps that render people of color more susceptible to this disease.”
But like many other “blue [cities] in … red state[s],” Mayor Bottoms must forge her own path of leadership for herself and her constituents—given the mixed messages and misinformation coming from the White House. “In a normal world, we could look to the president of the United States and receive sound, practical advice,” said Bottoms, “Instead, we have to caution people not to ingest and inject their bodies with household cleaners.”This weekend, Bottoms spoke out against the Trump administration again—placing blame on it for the outrageous miscarriage of justice behind the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man killed in February.
“The rhetoric that we hear coming out of the White House in many ways, I think many who are prone to being racist are given permission to do it in an overt way in a way we wouldn’t [otherwise] see in 2020,” said Bottoms on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “It’s heartbreaking that it’s 2020 and this was a lynching of an African American man,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says about the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.
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