It looks as though something remarkable has happened in the USA, in Georgia, this week. Thanks to a 10-year long campaign led by Stacey Abrams, the black population of that state, the women in particular, are at last feeling empowered enough to bring the Republican Party down. It seems they have elected two new Democrat senators, one of them being Georgia's first black senator ever, and that this result will ensure that the Senate as well as the House of Representatives is now controlled by Democrats, thus making it easier for them to assert their authority.
Last November during the voting in the Presidential elections I was moved to see the black electorate quietly lining up in long lines to make their voices count. They have done it again, and at this latest election many young, first-time voters joined the queue as well.
When people are listened to they become more dignified, less aggressive, more self-confident. This is a simple rule of the school playground and the world at large.
I feel justified in having supported the Black Lives Matter demonstration in Ottawa (wearing our masks) last June. That too was a powerfully moving day.
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