How Georgia Republicans intimidated & terrorized black voters & activists earlier this decade, after African American candidates won a majority of seats on the Brooks County education board for the first time in 2010:
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Brian Kemp has overseen other intimidation tactics, which are meant not so much to punish an individual person as to send a warning to others. (2/3)
Of course, Kemp didn't make up these tactics; using the law enforcement apparatus to intimidate black voters has long been part of white politicians' playbook. Read this on Jeff Sessions's intimidation efforts in 1980s Alabama: nytimes.com/2017/01/09/mag…
