Atlanta Mayor KeishaBottoms's decisive, empathetic responses to the protests in her city have quickly catapulted Bottoms, a 50-year-old lawyer and former city council member, to the national political stage.
America has arguably never needed the commanding, empathetic voice of a woman of color in the White House more: The country is still smarting from the COVID-19 pandemic, which isand the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have sparked nationwide protests and a long-overdue reckoning about police brutality and institutional racism. In the glaring absence of national leadership, state and local leaders like Bottoms have stood up to fill the void.this week.
I’ve been saying for the past few weeks and I actually said it during the congressional hearings: Our communities are sick and they are tired and they are dying. We’re sick from COVID-19. We’re sick from all these underlying health conditions that are making COVID-19 more deadly for us. We’re tired because we’re carrying so much emotional baggage and trauma. And then on top of that, we are dying. We are dying from COVID-19.
Where do we go from here? What are the specific systemic changes that need to happen, in Atlanta and nationwide? I saw Joe Biden talking about police reform. You’ve mentioned president Obama’s model forI’ve been asking myself that same question. We know that we don’t want to see another black person killed in America, and beyond that, what? As leaders, it’s incumbent upon us to convene that conversation.
Joe Biden got his momentum back and went on to win the nomination, in large part, after black voters supported him in South Carolina. Do you feel that he would represent the community’s interests as president?, I thought, That is the president that we need right now, somebody who can show empathy and recognize our hurt and pain, and then say, “There are things that I want us to do together to make it right.
In the absence of leadership from the president, people are looking to local and state officials like you and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, or New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Is the role of the local leader changing?
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