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Sunday, March 28, 2021

Gov. Kemp Signed Georgia's Voter Suppression Law in Front of a Painting of a Georgia Slave Plantation

 Here's the opening paragraph of Will Bunch's column in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Friday, Mar. 26th:

"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."

Click here for a link to the full column.   

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