Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore wants more people like politician Stacey Abrams to rise up across the country to fight “white supremacy.”
“We need a Stacey Abrams in every state,” Moore said during an interview on his podcast with fellow filmmaker Raoul Peck.
The interview was initially about Peck’s new TV series, Exterminate All the Brutes, but quickly transitioned to modern politics and Abrams, a failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate who has become a rising star in the Democratic Party.
Peck initially described Abrams as a powerhouse set on toppling the American “machine” founded on “genocide” and “slavery.”
“One extraordinary lesson we can learn is what Stacey Abrams and all her companions did in Georgia. People should learn from that because that’s the way to go,” he said. “It was 10 years of a hard work, house-per-house, person-per-person, they had to convince people, they had to really educate, and they had to lose sometimes.”
“So that’s the price we will have to pay, that we need to pay if we really want changes,” he added.
Moore then said every state in the country could benefit from Abrams’s efforts, before Peck interjected the country needs her “in every street, in every neighborhood.”
Raoul Peck has made one of the most audacious films ever to air on American television. The documentary series titled “Exterminate All The Brutes” tells the brutally honest history of colonialism, genocide and white supremacy.
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— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 2, 2021
Moore then commented on the rise of political demonstrations and protests, calling for more “people in the streets” to march in the “big fight” against “white supremacy.”
“Twenty to 30 million Americans in the streets last summer and fall was something that had never happened in this country before,” Moore stated. “My hope is … these boots on the ground, when people realize we’re not going to affect change simply by writing our member of Congress or tweeting or Facebook, but not that you shouldn’t do those things, that is not enough, because this is a big fight.”
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Despite Abrams’s 2018 gubernatorial loss to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, she has maintained a political presence in the state. In 2020, Abrams appealed to Hollywood and cultural icons to help flip both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats from Republican to Democrat.
