Stacey Abrams Is on a Board That Supports Defunding and Abolishing the Police – Opinion

Many Democrats embraced the ‘defund the police’ movement. BLM was pushing this idea constantly. At the Democratic convention, August 2020, Democrats were fully supportive of BLM. Even a number that recognized them featured. But after that convention — and after poll numbers began to come in and show how Americans were not on board with the idea, some of the Democrats began to try to distance themselves from the movement.

Some still seem to be linked to it regardless of whether or not they dispute it. This includes Stacey Abrams who is running to become Governor of Georgia.

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Fox News Digital learned that Stacey Abrams is a member of the board of a UPS foundation. The UPS family foundation awards millions to scholars and professors who promote anti-capitalist views and prison abolishment.

Abrams is running again for Georgia governor. He is listed on the board of the Marguerite Casey Foundation in Seattle. This private foundation, named after Marguerite Casey (the sister to UPS founder Jim Casey), is now listed as an Abrams Board member.

The foundation of the far left has supported defunding and eliminating police.

Abrams herself has even gotten money from the foundation, which is a question if she’s on the board. She’s received at least $52,500 from them.

What’s ridiculous and disqualifying is that Abrams claimed to Fox News Digital that she doesn’t hold the same views as the foundation. Um, but you’re on their board and you even took money from them? You can’t play this game where you get the benefit from the left from being associated with this and then run in the other direction and say “Oh well, sorry, didn’t mean it.” If Abrams is on the board she’s all-in and responsible for anything the board might be pushing.

A $250,000 grant was made by the foundation to support professors interested in radical or abolitionist studies. Robin D.G., a professor. Kelley asserts that capitalism is intrinsically racist.

Other recipients of the 2021 Freedom Scholars Awards included Angélica Cházaro, a Critical Race Theory (CRT) professor at the University of Washington School of Law who advocates for prison abolition, and Amna Akbar, an Ohio State University professor and proponent of “movement law,” which she describes as the “approach to legal scholarship grounded in solidarity, accountability, and engagement with grassroots organizing and left social movements.”

Marguerite Casey Foundation gave $3 million in 2020 to Freedom Scholars. Those recipients included Alisa Bierria, a gender studies professor at UCLA who recently argued that the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade signaled “a broader attitude by this government that treats women’s lives as disposable and trans people’s lives as disposable.”

Ananya, a UCLA urban studies professor, was also granted $250,000 by the foundation. She has advocated for abolishing private property. The government should also use eminent property to transform hotels into shelters for the homeless.

The foundation also awarded $250,000 to Charlene Carruthers, founder of the Black Youth Project 100, which she described in 2019 as “a political home for anti-capitalists, radical Black feminists, abolitionists, artists, educators and many more types of freedom fighters.”

If Abrams won the Governor’s race, she’d be able to appoint members for seven-year terms to the board of regents who oversee the public colleges in Georgia. So she wouldn’t just impose bad policies for the time she might be in office, she could appoint leftist regents and further drive the system in Georgia to the left. One more thing for the folks in Georgia to keep in mind when they’re considering for whom to vote. Her attack on the Georgia election law, which was passed last year in Georgia, was a way to dilute the state’s finances. The recent huge turnout in the Georgia primary showed just how wrong that was and how it’s likely to be a red tsunami. It should only encourage even more Georgians into the red.