How a criminal investigation in Georgia set an ominous tone for African-American voters

[Pacifist Patriot]

I'm sure there is no one here who still thinks the GOP is not a racist organization at their very core, right?

(Happened on December 21, 2010)..."The early-morning arrest began a multiyear nightmare for the mother of two. The state government, operating under the authority of a newly appointed secretary of state named Brian Kemp, arrested Dennard and 11 of her political allies and charged them with 120 separate felonies.

To Dennard and her allies, who became known as the Quitman 10+2, the reasons for their arrests were simple. They were black candidates who won an election in the Deep South, upsetting a white-dominated power structure.

“They thought they could make an example out of me, and that would kill the spirit of this movement,” said Dennard, who has a master’s degree in speech pathology, as well as an educational doctorate. “I knew we had done nothing wrong.”

Yet the mug shots taken at the jail that first day of African-Americans wearing orange jumpsuits would be an enduring image. The photos were plastered across newspaper front pages, broadcast repeatedly on local TV news and finally displayed on the screens of Fox News viewers as evidence of voter fraud...."

https://news.yahoo.com/how-a-criminal-investigation-in-georgia-set-a-dark-tone-for-african-american-voters-090000532.html





*I apologize if this is a duplicate. I did a search, but that doesn't always help avoid it.

[malaise]

1. This needs to be seen

Get thee to the greatest page

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. I had a hard time deciding on the paragraphs to include.

There is much more, and I hope people take the time to read the entire article. Good piece of journalism. The historical context is horrifying, and the GOP has no shame.

[Hortensis]

3. Fascistic actions by officials such as Kemp are being copied

around the nation currently, and I believe efficacy and tactics are being studied for acceleration of a takeover by Republican officials in state and local governments. The experts in the fall of democracies who are sounding the alarm for ours have to be right.

The 1.6 million Georgians AG Brian Kemp blatantly disenfranchised leading up to his 2018 theft of the governor's election, along with various other techniques, are a small fraction of the over 30 MILLION disenfranchisements across the nation between 2012 and 2016 (I was one of their attempts). Also, GA's Republican government had already designed state laws so that ultimately neither the candidate nor the people had recourse through the courts.

And this has been happening for some time in dozens of states. The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that even onerous and clearly predatory and hostile (my words, not theirs) de-registrations are legal as long as the states first write laws that use verbiage conservative justices have told them will pass.

Btw, since we're in Georgia, a bit of information not widely known is that, though the atrocities against the black officials in the article predated Brian Kemp's taking of the governor's office, black men voted in a significantly lower percentage than black women for Stacey Abrams, and lower than they had for Obama. This was even though they, like the entire world, were watching what Kemp was doing as it happened. Just one example that voter behaviors, including conservative influences, are a lot more complex than is usually discussed.