Friend,

Today is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, the calendar date indicating how far into 2019 we had to work to earn what men in the same job did in 2018.

Friend, we have an unbalanced civic infrastructure in America today that helps some people and hurts others. In the black community, my community, women earn $0.61 on the dollar, voters were barred from the polls last November, and mothers are three and a half times more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers.

The system is rigged against black and brown people, and it’s killing us. But there is something we can do to change it.

Add your name if you agree it’s past time for black women to have equal pay. We can close the gender pay gap for all women – white, black, Latinx, Native American, and Asian American – but only if we speak up and demand change together.

Right now Georgia has a senator in Washington, D.C. who is more worried about pleasing the president and his personal campaign donors than he is responding to the needs of ordinary constituents. That’s why he cut taxes for the ultrawealthy, only to see the deficit explode and create the conditions for another recession. He has tried to destroy the Affordable Care Act, which directly impacts my own family, and has even worked to expand Georgia’s abortion ban to the federal level.

David Perdue simply isn’t there to represent us. We are the people whose voices deserve to be heard. Yours. Mine. Ours.

Teresa has proven as mayor that she’s in this to lift up everyone, no matter their socioeconomic background. She is fighting to make sure that you have an equal voice in the Senate – but we need to speak as one in order to defeat David Perdue, and we need to speak now.

Thank you for being a foundational part of the campaign to flip Georgia blue and send Perdue packing. We are stronger for having you on our side.

Yours truly,

Kendra Cotton
Campaign Manager

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