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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorgia governor signed a voter suppression law under a painting of a slave plantation
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-painting-slave-plantation-20210326.htmlSometimes Americas legacy of white supremacy is hiding in plain sight, literally. When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a hastily passed voter suppression law that many are calling the new, new Jim Crow on Thursday night, surrounded by a half-dozen white men, he did so in front of a painting of a plantation where more than 100 Black people had been enslaved.
The fitting symbolism is somehow both shocking and unsurprising. In using the antebellum image of the notorious Callaway Plantation in a region where enslaved Black people seeking freedom were hunted with hounds in Wilkes County, Ga., as the backdrop for signing a bill that would make it a crime to hand water to a thirsty voter waiting on Georgias sometimes hours-long voter lines, the GOP governor was sending a clear message about race and human rights in the American South.
The portrait of the plantation was the starkest reminder of Georgias history of white racism that spans slavery, Jim Crow segregation, the rebirth of the modern Ku Klux Klan, and todays voter purges targeting Black and brown voters but it wasnt the only one. At the very moment that Kemp was signing the law with his all-white posse, a Black female Georgia lawmaker Rep. Park Cannon whod knocked on the governors door in the hopes of watching the bill signing was instead dragged away and arrested by state troopers, in a scene that probably had the Deep Souths racist sheriffs of yesteryear like Bull Connor or Jim Clark smiling in whatever fiery hellhole they now inhabit.
Indeed, Twitter was on fire Thursday night with posters drawing the straight line from notorious past segregationists like George Wallace to the 2021 actions of Kemp and the GOP-led Georgia Legislature in passing at great speed and with little debate a lengthy bill that also limits easy-access drop boxes for ballots and places onerous voter-ID restrictions on voting by mail, and which the New York Times reports will have an outsized effect on Black voters.
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Georgia governor signed a voter suppression law under a painting of a slave plantation (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2021
OP
And a black female state rep who knocked on Kemp's office door that day was ARRESTED FOR A FELONY
Cal Carpenter
Mar 2021
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Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)1. Evil and/or completely tone-deaf.
Doesn't matter. 😥😡
DinahMoeHum
(21,786 posts)2. Wow. Talk about a picture worth a thousand words. . .
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)3. And a black female state rep who knocked on Kemp's office door that day was ARRESTED FOR A FELONY
of assaulting a police officer.
Spoiler alert: Video shows she did NOT assault a police officer
https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/this-brave-black-legislator-knocked?fbclid=IwAR07tdz6QZDtdxs0o-0VyTFa4zGuLlBKcWWUgo6bvnQJe81s-25aeMwpSCs
Link to tweet
Fucking racist assholes in racist institutions doing racism. All of them. All the time.
Bettie
(16,104 posts)6. Yeah, where was the "assault"?
Knocking on a door?
Arguing?
Standing up for her constituents and her fellow GA residents?
Bettie
(16,104 posts)4. And while he did that
he had a Black woman arrested and charged for daring to protest!
So, he really did put in the effort to show exactly who and what he is.
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)5. Brian Lester Maddox Kemp