Authors Jamelle g-g-ghoulie 👻
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All available evidence shows that Brian Kemp is not interest in administering free and fair elections if it means he might lose.
I am not kidding when I say this is Jim Crow-style behavior.
I am not kidding.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 10, 2018
We need UN election observers in Georgia...the state, not the country.
I am not kidding when I say this is Jim Crow-style behavior.
i’ll keep saying this but for example look no further than the ku klux klan, theatrical and silly and also deadly serious
we often talk about the overthrow of reconstruction as a singular organized effort, but it should be understood as something more disparate and fractured, with success tied less to martial superiority than the indifference of authorities to intimidation and violence.
a group of guys — maybe the owner of the general store, and the sheriff and some farmers who fought in the war — gets together to gripe and complain and plot a little mischief. they put on masks and grab guns and go beat up a black sharecropper or local clerk or whatever...
everyone knows who did it. but there’s no one to stop them. the army, if it’s even in the state, is tens or hundreds of miles away. and mustering a militia may risk open conflict. the guys realize they can do this and getaway with it. so they do it again.
maybe they have a few more people with them this time. maybe they escalate, not just beating up local blacks and their white allies but killing a few.
to the question of larping, yes, most everything starts in the realm of pretense and fantasy but some things get realized, I would have thought people would have learned by now that things can be both absurd and sinister
— John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) January 7, 2021
we often talk about the overthrow of reconstruction as a singular organized effort, but it should be understood as something more disparate and fractured, with success tied less to martial superiority than the indifference of authorities to intimidation and violence.
a group of guys — maybe the owner of the general store, and the sheriff and some farmers who fought in the war — gets together to gripe and complain and plot a little mischief. they put on masks and grab guns and go beat up a black sharecropper or local clerk or whatever...
everyone knows who did it. but there’s no one to stop them. the army, if it’s even in the state, is tens or hundreds of miles away. and mustering a militia may risk open conflict. the guys realize they can do this and getaway with it. so they do it again.
maybe they have a few more people with them this time. maybe they escalate, not just beating up local blacks and their white allies but killing a few.