Ibrahim Hooper 3:04 pm
(ATLANTA, GA, 1/8/2021) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)and its Georgia chapter (CAIR-Georgia) today released the results of an exit poll that surveyed registered Georgia Muslim voters who participated in Tuesday’s special U.S. Senate election. The exit poll of 196 Georgia Muslim voters found that 91% (179 respondents) voted for U.S. Senate race winners Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, while 6% (11 respondents) voted for Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Three percent of respondents declined to answer. Both Democratic candidates beat out their opponents by razor thin margins, with Reverend Warnock and Ossoff respectively winning 50.9% and 50.5% of the state’s vote . Georgia is home to an estimated 150,000 American Muslims, including at least 71,000 registered Muslim voters.
Credit Ralph Gardner, Jr.
I wrote most of this commentary on Wednesday morning before the Capitol was stormed. Such cataclysmic events have a way of dividing life into before and after. But after rereading it I think it still applies.
My wife didn’t understand my sense of wonder when I plucked a yellowing postcard from a stack of them the night of the Georgia runoff elections and tried to explain its significance to her. It was a postcard sent to my mother, signed by her parents and their friends, in August, 1946 from a restaurant called Le Café Arnold, It was located at 240 Central Park South in Manhattan. The card showed the interior of the restaurant – tidy rows of set tables apparently meant to convey refinement in post-war New York. There was also an insert of Arnold himself over the words “Host to the discerning”.
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The Atlantic
D.C. Statehood Is More Urgent Than Ever
“The real fraud is that we call ourselves a democracy yet deny the people of our capital political representation.”
The Atlantic
Less than six months before a mob of the sitting president’s supporters would descend upon the United States Capitol, a more solemn crowd gathered at its steps. Among those who arrived to pay their final respects to the late Representative John Lewis were Washington, D.C., residents who appreciated his unwavering support of statehood for the district. As they waited in line for the public viewing, a small group of Black women raised their fists in honor of the Georgia lawmaker known as the conscience of Congress, who saw their city’s struggle as the very kind of “good trouble” that defines his legacy. Lewis had backed the symbolically named House Resolution 51 since Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s nonvoting delegate, first introduced it nearly three decades ago. In 1993
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