Stacey Abrams says white guys can fail and get a second chance, but women and people of color 'get one strike and you're out'
Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams opined that a "white guy" can fail and get another chance in business, but people of color and women only get one chance to succeed before being dumped.
Abrams, who is running to be governor of Georgia, made the comments during an interview with Yahoo Finance published Thursday. She was asked to identify the biggest barriers that hold back diverse business founders.
"If you are a man — if you're a white guy — you can fail several times and come back and say, let me try again. But if you're a woman, if you're a person of color, and if you're a woman of color, you get basically one strike and you're out," claimed Abrams.
Ironically, Abrams was mounting her second bid for the governorship of Georgia after failing in a close election to Republican Brian Kemp. Abrams and has complained numerous times that the election was rigged by Republicans and stolen from her.
She also said in the interview that people of color and women don't have the access to capital that whites and males do.
"The first [barrier] is access. Very few actually know where to go to get the money," said Abrams. "And if you know where to go, you don't necessarily the code word to get inside. And so the first is access."
She went on to criticize CEOs for trying to avoid commenting on controversies involving politics.
"Politics is how we make and spend our, our time and how we determine how we will live our lives, our lives," she explained.
Abrams continued, "there are some conversations that are social in nature, others that are cultural, but those that are foundational that cut across your ability to make good decisions, especially about how we live our lives. Those are the moments where I think CEOs and other business leaders have a responsibility to step up and make their voices heard."
Abrams is currently running behind Kemp in polling for the November election, but Kemp faces a tough primary challenge from David Perdue, who has been backed by former President Donald Trump in the race.
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'Set phasers to cringe': Leftist GA gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is president of the United Earth on 'Star Trek' — and viewers head to sick bay
You don't suppose the movers and the shakers connected with "Star Trek: Discovery" care one way or another if left-wing darling Stacey Abrams wins the Georgia gubernatorial race in November, do you?
Because they gave the Democratic candidate some extra attention by casting her in the role of president of the United Earth for Thursday's season four finale.
What are the details?
One clip shows the Federation president greeting Abrams' character and saying she's looking forward to diplomatic discussions getting started. “Nothing to discuss,” Abrams character replies. “United Earth is ready right now to rejoin the Federation, and nothing could make me happier than to say those words."
Her character then engages in a brief chat with other characters, including U.S.S. Discovery Capt. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), after which the clip ends.
A decidedly starstruck Martin-Green told Deadline that she's "still floored when I think about Stacey gracing us with her presence in our Season 4 finale."
Martin-Green added to the outlet that Abrams "is a legend in the making and a civil hero" and that "it was an honor for me as a black woman to stand with her in the story."
Deadline called Abrams "the woman widely regarded as having saved American democracy," presumably for her work getting Democrats elected in 2020.
How are folks reacting to the clip?
A number of Twitter users who watched the clip of Abrams playing president of the United Earth seem well aware of the political parallels at play — and they almost unanimously slapped their palms against their foreheads:
Anything else?
Abrams announced her bid for Georgia governor in December. She lost the 2018 governor's race to Republican Brian Kemp by a small margin, after which Abrams infamously claimed voter suppression and said Kemp's victory was tainted.
"We had this little election back in 2018, and despite the final tally and the inauguration and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have one very affirmative statement to make: We won," Abrams said five months after her defeat.
In early February, Abrams was called out for the hypocritical optics of a photo showing her without a mask in a classroom full of young children forced to wear face masks — and soon the photo was gone from social media.