by Sherri Williams
When Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election last year, Lucia McBath
was devastated. McBath crossed the country multiple times campaigning
for Clinton with the Mothers of the Movement, black mothers whose
children were killed by police or gun violence, who mobilized their
grief into political action.
Now, McBath is
back on the campaign trail but this time she's stumping for herself.
She’s running for a state house seat in the Georgia legislature. McBath,
whose teenage son Jordan Davis
was fatally shot by a white man in 2012 over an argument about loud
music, initially believed she had more influence working as an activist
with groups such as Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
But after she had an important conversation with someone who encouraged
her to become a candidate and McBath sought divine guidance she decided
to run for public office.
“I really began to understand that I can continue to build the external
movement for gun violence prevention,” said McBath. “Getting on the
inside is the truest way to be able to make the changes effectively and
critically because it takes much longer to do it externally.”
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Source: NBC News
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