Perhaps used to storing thousands upon thousands of votes they disagreed with in tool sheds on plantations before they could be safely put to flame at their next weekly cross burning, Georgia white supremacists are as we speak throwing fits of inbred doofus rage at the great indignity of having to wait for the votes to actually and fully be counted in last Tuesday’s gubernatorial election.

Led by demi-Nazi Brian Kemp, who was doubly offended that his opponent in the Georgia state governor race was a black woman (gasp!), Republicans in Georgia are now throwing tantrums because Stacey Abrams, Kemp’s opponent, is refusing to concede.

Her argument?

That the votes should actually be counted.

This would all be laughably absurd if it weren’t for the fact that the state of Georgia, and the country in which it sits, have long been subject to programs of white supremacy, be they legal, institutional, or social. Stacey Abrams is not just fighting Kemp. She is fighting slavery, Jim Crow, and the racism that lies at the heart of Georgia’s, and our nation’s, criminal justice system.

When Abrams demands that every vote be counted, she does so out of respect for the millions upon millions of African-American votes that have historically been suppressed in her state. Kemp, who remained in his role as Georgia Secretary of State, a role which allowed him to run the election, engaged in tactics such as removing a disproportionate number of African-Americans from the state’s voter registration roles, continuing a sad tradition in Georgia and the United States.

Stacey Abrams may or may not turn out to have won the 2018 Georgia governor race, but it is the responsibility of all of us to make sure she and we as a society win the greater fight.