Gov. Kemp Signed Voter Suppression Law Under Painting Of Slave Plantation

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Gov. Kemp Signed Voter Suppression Law Under Painting Of Slave Plantation

Rep, Park Cannon after her arrest at the Georgia State Capitol Building on March 25, 2021, in Atlanta.

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Sometimes America’s 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, Georgi...

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