Mother of murdered son elected to Congress

In 2012, seventeen year old Jordan Davis was murdered at a Florida gas station by a white man who was upset at him for playing his music too loudly. Last week, his mother Lucy McBath was elected into Congress.

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McBath won the congressional seat for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, a well known red district. She is also the first non-white person to do so.

While her son’s killer is currently in prison with no chance of parole, McBath recognizes that many other victims and their families, will never find that same peace. Her son’s murder, combined with the high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida (which resulted in 17 deaths) gave her reason to run. Telling CNN: “For me, I was looking beyond my own tragedy, looking for the other tragedies that were most definitely going to happen if I didn't keep talking about this crisis."

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Understandably a gun control advocate, Lucy is a prime example of how events in modern America have evolved our national focus in terms of prioritizing domestic protections. Lucy just like Emma Gonzales, and countless others are brave (yet unfortunate) results of Americans fighting for change against a deliberately irresponsible government. One of the few goods that have come from Trump’s administration is that it has created individuals and communities who are taking justice and the plan for action into their own hands.

This past midterms saw historical wins from various states:

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Abby Finkenauer are both the youngest women elected to Congress at just 29 years old. Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland because the first Native AMerican women elected to Congress.

Illhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib because the first Muslim women elected to Congress. Young Kim is the first Korean American woman elected to Congress.

Jared Polis is the first openly gay man elected to Congress. Ayana Pressley (Massachusetts) and Juliana Stratton (Illinois) became the first black Congresswomen for their states.

Congrats to this individuals for their victories, and may the be the change we so greatly need.