Georgia
Related: About this forumGovernor Kemp's Family Brought Slavery to Georgia
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp does not want you to know that it was his family that first brought enslaved Africans to Georgia.
The original settlers in Georgia had outlawed slavery until James Habersham Kemps ancestor won a bloody battle to bring humans in chains to his plantations.
Habershams reward for bringing the slave system to Georgia? He was appointed acting Governor under King George II. So Kemp can claim a governing dynasty going back nearly three centuries. His mother was quite proud of it (her records and photo albums are priceless resources), but the current Governor demurs.
Lets be clear: Brian Kemp did not bring enslaved humans to Georgia. Nor is he responsible for the horrors perpetrated by his long-dead ancestors.
But Kemp, who fanatically avoids association with his dark origins, has gone so far as to ensconce historical amnesia into law. This April, Kemp signed HB1178, the so-called Parents Bill of Rights and a companion bill that makes it darn difficult for any schoolteacher in the Peach State to teach uncensored history and keep their job.
As Kemp noted in his signing ceremony, the law will ban the teaching of divisive concepts and, as a gleeful local newscaster said, would make it easier to ban books.
My question for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation: Is it divisive, under the law, to state the fact that the Kemp Dynastys power and privileges are sourced in human trafficking?
https://www.gregpalast.com/governor-kemps-family-brought-slavery-to-georgia/
Walleye
(35,976 posts)Im certainly not proud of it and not particularly ashamed of it I would hate to think they wouldnt be teaching about it in school, though. I just use it as incentive to be a better person than my ancestors were
mahatmakanejeeves
(61,279 posts)appalachiablue
(42,982 posts)* Article Excerpt: ('Jim Crow 2.0')
.. SUPPRESSING THE HISTORY IS SUPPRESSING THE VOTE. Darien City Councilman Griffin Lotson.
Councilman Lotson draws a direct line between suppressing history and Kemps other legislative accomplishment: suppressing the vote of the descendants of the enslaved. Last year, Kemp, as he prepared for his re-match for the Governorship against Stacey Abrams, signed SB202 what the NAACP calls Jim Crow 2.0.
- Among the bills little noticed but most threatening clauses: any Georgian can challenge the vote of an unlimited number of other Georgians ballot. During our research for the film Vigilante, we met one GOP county chairman who personally challenged and blocked the vote of over 4,000 voters in Columbus, Georgia, including Major Gamaliel Turner, an African-American career military specialist. The Major was assigned by the military to a base on the West Coast and was denied his ballot because this Republican official, Alton Russell, challenged the Major on grounds the soldier was not a citizen of Georgia.
The history of the vigilante challenge law is elucidating, originally used in 1946 by Eugene Talmadge, who successfully won the Governorship by organizing his Ku Klux Klan followers to challenge Black voters en masse. Instead of white sheets, Kemps vigilantes use spreadsheets to challenge thousands of legitimate at the push of a button. (Note: Not a single voter challenged, out of over 168,000 challenged has been charged with attempting to vote illegally.)...
But Lotson knows his history and makes the connection. He said, When you suppress the history, you suppress the vote.
I thought Id warn Councilman Lotson about making divisive statements in Georgia. No matter how true.
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Greg Palasts investigation of Brian Kemp and the history of vote suppression, the documentary Vigilante: Georgias Vote Suppression Hitman, will have a no-charge screening this week only at VigilanteMovie.com
The films Director, David Ambrose, contributed research for this article.