Georgia, Where Racism Is Now Law

Last week. When Georgia’s GQP Governor Brian Kemp signed the state’s new restrictive voting bill into law the photo of the signing quickly went viral.

Why? Well, a law that most people feel will inhibit voting by People of Color was signed by a white man, surrounded by white men, celebrating the signing, in front of a painting of a notorious slave plantation in Wilkes County.

The painting titled Brickhouse Road depicts the Callaway Plantation, once a 3,000-acre plantation that owned up to 100 slaves. Their master was so cruel he built a quasi-jail on the property for unruly slaves, and set dogs onto those who tried to escape.

That’s how Brian Kemp and his white supporters celebrated Jim Crow 2.0. And while a gaggle of white men cheered about voter suppression, a lone black woman was arrested for trying to enter the room

Oh, and let’s not forget that while Kemp was signing the legislation, Georgia state troopers were arrested Park Cannon, an out Black female Democrat state representative, because she was knocking at the door.

Let that sink in … a group of white men gathered in front of a painting of a plantation to celebrate passing a law that makes it harder for low-income people, and People of Color, to vote,  while an out Black woman was knocking at the door asking to come inside.

They don’t even try to hide their racism any longer.