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National View: No, Georgia voting law not a return of Jim Crow


National View: No, Georgia voting law not a return of Jim Crow
From the column: Anyone who has actually read the almost 100 pages of the Georgia law would know that it is not an attempt to keep Black voters from voting.
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Columnist Christine Flowers
I am so glad the whole white-supremacy and gun-nut narrative is over, so we can get back to the one about voter suppression. Those horrific shootings late last month diverted our attention away from what President Joe Biden called Jim Crow on steroids, namely the recent controversial voting reform legislation passed in Georgia and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp. ....

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Georgia voting law is no return to Jim Crow


I am so glad the whole white supremacy and gun nut narrative is over, so we can get back to the one about voter suppression. Those horrific shootings late last month diverted our attention away from what President Joe Biden has called “Jim Crow on steroids,” namely the recent controversial voting reform legislation passed in Georgia and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp.
Anyone who has actually read the almost 100 pages of the Georgia law would know that it is not an attempt to keep Black voters from voting. It is not akin to the KKK roadblocks that my father encountered in Mississippi in 1967. It is not anywhere near as egregious as the murder of Viola Liuzzo, a white woman assassinated by the Klan in Alabama because she was accompanying Black friends to the airport after a voting rights rally. It doesn’t come close to creating the atmosphere on the Edmund Pettus bridge, the site of the late John Lewis’ near fatal beating. ....

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