We Can Elect NC's First Black Woman U.S. Senator
Cheri Beasley would also be NC's first African-American U.S. Senator
Cheri Beasley’s win in November would be a win for all North Carolina’s African-Americans, black women, all women, and families. We as voters can take part in this historic election in November.
There are currently 24 women that hold a position in the senate and none of them are African-American. Beasley understands that the position she is running for is a huge responsibility but would be honored to be the first black woman in the Senate to represent NC.
She would also be the first black Senator from North Carolina.
Beasley follows in the footsteps of another historic candidate, Carol Moseley Braun from Illinois. In 1992 Moseley Braun became the nation’s first African-American woman U.S. Senator, and the second black U. S. Senator since Reconstruction.
She was also the first woman to sit on the Finance Committee and the second woman to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
[She] was a national symbol of change, reform, and equality with her dedication to civil rights, education, and families.
In 1993, Moseley Braun was the catalyst for convincing the Senate Judiciary Committee not to renew a design patent for the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) because it contained the Confederate flag.
It was said about Moseley Braun that her “indignant stand swayed the votes of other senators in the tradition-bound Senate.”
She herself said,
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
And now in 2022, in a win for Cheri Beasley we look for more glass ceilings to be broken. This is not new for Beasley. In 2019 Governor Roy Cooper appointed her to be the first African-American woman Chief Justice on the NC Supreme Court.
At the announcement Beasley said,
It is not lost on me -- this historic fact -- especially since this is Black History Month. I know that the work we do is hugely important, but the other thing I think about are the little girls along the way, who ought to have a sense of promise and hope for their futures, and so I hope that in some way my service inspires young people especially, but really I hope it is a show of symbolism for where we are in North Carolina.
Beasley’s U.S. Senate campaign website details her support for expanding quality healthcare for NC, education opportunities, increasing the minimum wage, investing in well-paying jobs, affordable childcare and housing, infrastructure, and small businesses as well as the labor movement.
She will protect the Expanded Childcare Tax Credit and support passing Federal Paid Family and Medical Leave.
She supports the economies of rural towns and farming for all citizens, and reforming the criminal justice and immigration systems. She will protect our voting rights, the environment and community safety.
I was delighted to find she has organized “Women for Beasley”. See her website.
And I’m excited to say that she’s coming soon to Transylvania County to meet us. You can ask her about her campaign, her experience, and her vision for representing North Carolina in the United States Senate.
I hope you will take this opportunity. And please share it with your friends.
Our votes in November can elect her to the office of a lifetime, and her life experience has prepared her for it.
I think Cheri Beasley is a woman for our times. She will work for us, the people, and help to pull our nation back from the brink of losing our democracy.
She sounds great to me.
Onward with Cheri! North Carolina will be so proud!