This Northside Sun editorial says Georgia's voting law is "Not As Bad As Jim Crow."
"It may be argued that they will discourage more Blacks than whites...from voting," but "no one will be denied the right to vote because of skin color..."
THAT'S HOW JIM CROW HAS ALWAYS WORKED.
Jim Crow laws were created in response to the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
The goal was to get around prohibitions on overt racial discrimination by using "color blind" language to systemically target Black people under the guise of general "literacy tests."
The South was purposefully ensuring white children got a far better education than Black children.
And clerks would give Black voters much more difficult (impossible even) versions of literacy tests than white voters.
But the laws didn't specify Black voters as their targets!
So this @NorthsideSun editorial, as is often the case, betrays a total lack of appreciation for history while at the same time demonstrating exactly why the Georgia law is very much in the tradition of Jim Crow laws.
Just read the depravity of this bit that we're supposed to read and be like, "Oh yeah, that's fine."
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NEW: “This verdict is just, but it is not justice. Justice restores and repairs. No action can restore the life of our brother George Floyd to his family and community."
“So we are grateful for the statement that this verdict makes to those who seek to kill us and deny us humanity, but we are still grieving that it came at the cost of the life of a father, brother, son, and friend."
—Jackson Mayor @ChokweALumumba mississippifreepress.org/11465/the-verd…
I lost my white brother to police brutality when I was 14-years-old.
I am goddamn tired of people who don't give a single damn about victims like him pretending they care about white victims of police brutality just long enough to distract from Black victims like George Floyd.
White supremacy has always been willing to sacrifice white lives.
Rep. JH McGehee, arguing for Mississippi's Jim Crow constitution, said he'd do "anything" to "insure white supremacy...even if it does sacrifice some of my white children or my white neighbors or their children."
So don't bother pretending you give a damn about white victims of police.
Black people make up 13% of the country, yet are 24% of police brutality victims.
That's why there's a willingness to sacrifice so many white lives to this system: because Black people get hurt worse.
Making it so that student IDs don't count as valid forms of ID is clearly designed to make it harder for "woke college students" (as Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson described them) to vote.
A two party democracy, but one party is on a national anti-democracy binge.
Republican Reps. Jansen Owen and Kent McCarty and joined Democratic Rep. Shanda Yates in attempting to pass a law creating no-excuse in-person absentee voting in Mississippi during the pandemic.
“Mississippi is moving in the right direction. This is good common-sense policy that establishes dignity for incarcerated women because every woman deserves that," says Steven Randle of @EmpowerMS. 3/ mississippifreepress.org/11409/mississi…
Yes, they're both women on the further ideological ends of their party's spectrums—but only MTG is ideologically extreme.
They both get the other side really upset, but MTG does so on purpose; AOC by existing.
AOC, despite her lack of major legislative accomplishments, relentlessly focuses on policy and details and uses her speaking time on the floor and in committee to discuss issues or effectively interrogate.
MTG uses every minute of speaking time she gets for the grievance grift.
One of these women is a woman of color who talks about solutions and issues of discrimination against POC and LGBT people.
The other is a white daughter of white flight who denies the realities of systemic racism, spreads anti-LGBT hate, and traffics in conspiracy theories.
THREAD: In a 1955, Dixiecrat Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi warned that the civil rights movement threatened "the death of southern culture and our aspirations as an Anglo-Saxon people."
Integration, he said, would threaten "their untainted racial heritage." 1/
To fight the destruction of alleged Anglo-Saxon racial purity, Sen. Eastland declared "a crusade to restore Americanism" by fighting to preserve segregation.
The Mississippi Dixiecrat tied that fight to the fight against efforts to "socialize industry"—especially health care. 2/
In 1938, Sen. Theodore Bilbo filibustered a federal anti-lynching law. Before he did so, he gave a speech explaining his opposition to the bill:
"It is absolutely essential to the perpetuation of our Anglo-Saxon civilization that white supremacy in America be maintained." 3/