Remember Sarah Palin pardoning a Turkey at Thanksgiving while another Turkey was beheaded in the background on the video?
Well, the damn violent GOP did it again!
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and allies as he signed his state's new voting law in his office Thursday night, in front of a painting of a former slave plantation in Wilkes County. (Photo from Kemp's Twitter feed)Via Brian Kemp's Twitter account
Georgia governor signed a voter suppression law under a painting of a slave plantation | Will Bunch 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 Georgia’s sometimes hours-long voter lines, the GOP governor was sending a clear message about race and human rights in the American South.
An investigation into a legacy of Georgia's white supremacy hiding in plain sight behind the state's new Jim Crow-style voting law. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-painting-slave-plantation-20210326.html
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