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April 23, 2021
U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn called Georgia’s sweeping new voter suppression law “the new Jim Crow.”
Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams called it “Jim Crow 2.0”
It’s all that. But in some ways – though certainly not including the prevalent racial terror and violence of the era – it’s much like old Jim Crow, wrapped up in a new package, one that’s only slightly less transparent than the laws enacted across the South in the late 1800s and early 1900s to deny Black people access to the ballot, along with many other rights.
And so the scene of the March 25 bill signing couldn’t have been more appropriate: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp surrounded by six other white men standing in front of a painting of a Georgia plantation where hundreds of people had been enslaved prior to the Civil War.