At the Democratic National Convention last night, each state voted one by one in a ceremonial roll-call to nominate the Democratic candidate for President of the United States. For some reason, the roll call was accompanied by music for each state selected by someone called DJ Cassidy.
The loud music and shouted nominations gave the vote a rock-concert feeling, and then my home state of Georgia, not to be outdone by the other states, amped up the energy when we broke out Lil Jon for our nomination. The rapper entered the arena screaming his trademark “Yeah!” and marched down the aisle waving his hand in the air while breaking into his song, Turn Down for What. His mini-concert continued as he led a chant of “We ain’t going back,” Kamala Harris' campaign slogan, and then cheers of "VP Harris to the Walz" (a tweak to the chorus of his Get Low).
Finally, Lil Jon turned it over to Nikema Williams, my representative in Congress, who called out the Georgia Board of Elections shenanigans with voter registrations, while Raphael Warnock, my Senator, stood beside her. Williams even managed to drop in a "good trouble" reference to the late, great John Lewis, her predecessor to my District's House seat.
Oh Atlanta, you're never the shrinking violet at any party. It’s like the other states weren’t even trying. Someone on social media called it "the most Atlanta thing ever" and even MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had to acknowledge that Georgia has become the cultural capital of America.
As Axios Atlanta put it, we influence everything.
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