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Key West elected Teri Johnston, Florida’s first openly lesbian mayor
New York elected Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress
Colorado elected Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected governor in the US
Minnesota elected Ilhan Omar, the first Muslim woman (alongside Rashida Tlaib), the first refugee, and the first Somali-American woman elected to Congress
Massachusetts elected Ayanna Pressley, the first black woman elected to Congress in Massachusetts
Kansas elected Sharice Davids, an openly gay ex-MMA fighter and one of the first Native American women (alongside Deb Haaland) elected to Congress
Michigan elected Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American (and first Muslim woman, alongside Ilhan Omar) elected to Congress
Kentucky elected Nima Kulkarni, the first Indian-American elected to Kentucky House of Representatives
New Mexico elected Deb Haaland, one of the first Native American women (alongside Sharice Davids) elected to Congress
New Hampshire elected Chris Pappas, the first openly gay member of Congress from New Hampshire
Florida elected Anna Eskamani, the first Iranian-American state lawmaker in Florida
Texas elected Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia, the first Texas Latinas in Congress
Colorado elected Joe Neguse, the first black Coloradan in Congress
New York elected Letitia “Tish” James, the first black woman elected New York State Attorney General
Connecticut elected Jahana Hayes, the first black, Connecticut woman in Congress
Minnesota elected Angie Craig, the first lesbian mother in Congress
And a record number of women will be elected to the House.
Representation matters. Diversity matters. This is progress.
George Jackson, who was shot by prison guards on Aug. 21, 1971, inspired a generation of revolutionaries with his defiance and his careful analysis of U.S. imperialism.
Sentenced to one year at the age of 18, Jackson had spent 11 years behind bars, seven of them in solitary, by the time he was murdered. His refusal to be broken by the guards, plus his organizing among the prisoners, had made him a target of the brutal administration in both Soledad and San Quentin prisons.
Jackson began to read the communist classics in prison. He said in his book “Soledad Brother”: “I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao … and they redeemed me. For the first four years, I studied nothing but economics and military ideas.“
He joined the Black Panther Party from his jail cell and wrote about the difference between reform and revolution in his last book, “Blood in My Eye”:
“Reshuffle the government personnel and forms, without changing property relations and economic institutions, and you have produced simply another reform stage in the old bourgeois revolution. The power to alter the present imbalances … rests with control over production and distribution of wealth….
“Revolutionary change means the seizure of all that is held by the 1 percent, and the transference of these holdings into the hands of the remaining 99 percent. If the 1 percent are simply displaced by another 1 percent, revolutionary change has not taken place.”
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