Lisa Ray Instagram – Posted @withregram • @christine.chitnis I wanted to share this with you because I found it reflected the way I’m feeling in this moment: “America has always had competing stories. I believe in the one we saw (Tuesday) in Georgia, and it’s imperative for that story to persevere and ultimately prevail. -Ben Rhodes There are always competing stories about America. We are a country of violence against indigenous peoples, slavery, civil war, Jim Crow, children in cages, white supremacy, and racist violence BUT we are also a country of the Civil Rights Act, Kamala Harris, the Voting Rights Act, MLK Jr., and John Lewis. I think that politics, and the policies we enact, are about choosing between these competing stories. @raphaelwarnock said it so eloquently in his victory speech: “The other day, because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick someone else’s cotton, went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a US Senator. So I come before you tonight as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in America, could only happen here. We were told we couldn’t win this election, but tonight we proved that with hope, hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible.”