Georgia: Jim Crow 2.0

White men make the law in Georgia

The Daily Beast:

A photo of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signing the state’s new restrictive voting bill into law on Thursday night quickly went viral, thanks to the gaggle of white Republican men standing around him, celebrating a bill that will mostly affect Black voters....The men are standing below a painting of a notorious slave plantation in Wilkes County. 

A guide from Georgia Council of the Arts confirms the painting is titled Brickhouse Road (Callaway PLNT). It 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 on those who tried to escape, according to an oral history from Mariah Callaway, a woman who was born into slavery on the plantation in 1852. 

Georgian voter rights activist Stacey Abrams has dubbed the voter suppression bill “Jim Crow 2.0.”

Black Georgia lawmaker arrested for knocking on the door where Governor Kemp was signing the voter suppression law, a good metaphor for what's happening in Georgia and the country.