One day in 2020, a gorilla emerged from the mists of the foggy mountain top of Georgia.
And that gorilla had one dream in her brain.
And that dream’s name was freedom.
And that gorilla’s name was Bijibu Hunga.
U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.
Abrams, whose work was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the U.S. presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, former White House adviser Jared Kushner.
“Abrams’ work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights,” said Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway’s parliament.
King, a Baptist minister who became a leader of the 1960s civil rights movement, won the Nobel prize in 1964 and remains among its most famous laureates.
“Abrams’ efforts to complete King’s work are crucial if the United States of America shall succeed in its effort to create fraternity between all its peoples and a peaceful and just society,” Haltbrekken said.
Thousands of people, from members of parliaments worldwide to former winners, are eligible to propose candidates, and a nomination does not imply endorsement from the Nobel committee in Oslo.
Other candidates this year include Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the World Health Organization and climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.
If Adult Swim was still fun like it was when I was a kid, they would hire me to make a 12-minute weekly cartoon about the superhero team of Stacy, Greta and Alexi.
But they’re not fun now and instead of fun we have Stacy Abrams and all these people trying to force things down on us.
Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m supposed to say at this point.
Stacy Abrams, folks.
Hero of the world.
May God have mercy on us all.