Back when she was getting ‘magical slivers of plastic’.
Via Daily Mail:
The Democrat candidate for Georgia governor once helped burn the state flag as part of a protest, it has emerged.
Stacey Abrams, who is aiming to become the first black female governor in America, torched the flag at the Georgia Capitol as part of a student demonstration in 1992.
Ms Abrams, who is running against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, was taking part in an ultimately successful effort to have the Confederate battle flag removed from the state flag.
An image of Ms Abrams at the flag burning was printed by the Atlanta Journal Constitution at the time, and reprinted by the New York Times on Monday.
The picture shows three students from Spelman College setting light to the flag, with Ms Abrams watching in the background.
Polls show Ms Abrams and Mr Kemp currently tied in the gubernatorial race, with the first debate due to take place today.[…]
Ms Abrams’ campaign against Confederate symbols did not stop in her student days. Last year, she called for the removal of a Confederate carving in Stone Mountain.
She called the carving, which shows President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson on horseback, ‘a symbol of white supremacy’.