Kemp Blasts 'Outside Agitators' After Scrutiny Of Policy Blocking 53K From Voting

[Gothmog]

The term outside agitator has a long history dating back to the Jim Crow days. Freedom riders and persons attempting to register non-whites in the south were often called outside agitators. Kemp is using the Jim Crow terminology today because he was caught https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/brian-kemp-outside-agitators-voter-registration

As Yahoo News’ Jon Ward points out, the term “outside agitators” has a racially tinged history and was used by segregationists in the South.

Though Kemp was perhaps referring to the national media and his gubernatorial opponent’s out-of-state supporters, he used a racially charged term to defend a policy viewed as an attempt to keep low-income and minority residents from voting.

“Despite what you hear or read, the numbers are clear. While outside agitators disparage this office and falsely attack us, we have kept our heads down and remained focused on ensuring secure, accessible, and fair elections for all voters,” Kemp said in the statement. “The fact is that it has never been easier to register to vote and get engaged in the electoral process in Georgia, and we are incredibly proud to report this new record.”

The statement touting the voter registration statistics came after records obtained by the Associated Press earlier this week revealed that a secretary of state’s office policy kept 53,000 people from registering to vote. The policy allows the state to delay or block the registrations of residents when information on their voter registration form does not match exactly with existing state records

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[elleng]

1. Damn right we're outside agitators,

outside of your state which is damned by your presence and illegal governance, and doing our best to see to it that Georgians can VOTE!

[sheshe2]

2. He is a real piece of work. nt

[Turbineguy]

3. Just like those Civil Rights people!

[procon]

4. Crooks are always angry when someone catches them in the act.

The numbers tell the truth, he can't hide what he's doing.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Oh, so now it is the boogy man, eh? Looks like kemp is getting desperate and about to blame...

everybody including grandma for election day shenanigans. 'Outside agitators' is an over used, tired, old, untrue excuse used to the extreme by idiots such as kemp.

[Caliman73]

6. The whole situation is an outrage.

The voter purge is an outrage and just par for the course for Republicans. The idea that he is actively running for governor and actively in charge of the electoral process of the state is, to me, the larger outrage. Why he has not been ordered to recuse himself during the election cycle is beyond me.

[ProudLib72]

7. This goes beyond "agitation". We should be boiling mad at this fuckery

Kemp needs to be locked up for this.

[dae]

8. You can bet your sweet bippy he was letting his brethren in the

KKK know he needs their help in the coming election.

[RandySF]

9. Holy shit. He's going full Bull Connor.

[Cha]

10. They're Patriots you

MF Fascist.

[RHMerriman]

11. You know who else were "outsiders"?

You know who else were "outsiders"?

William Tecumseh Sherman and the Army of the Tennessee ... beat 'em once; we'll beat 'em again.


Marching Through Georgia by Harry Clay Work


Ring the good ol' Bugle boys! We'll sing another song,

Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along,

Sing it as we used to sing it sixty thousand strong,

While we were marching through Georgia.


Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee.

Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free,

So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,

While we were marching through Georgia.


How the people shouted when they heard the joyful sound,

How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found,

How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground,

While we were marching through Georgia.


Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee.

Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free,

So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,

While we were marching through Georgia.


Yes and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears,

When they saw the honored flag they had not seen for years;

Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth in cheers,

While we were marching through Georgia.


Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee.

Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free,

So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,

While we were marching through Georgia.


"Sherman's dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!"

So the traitor rebels said and 'twas a handsome boast

Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the Host

While we were marching through Georgia.


Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee.

Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free,

So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,

While we were marching through Georgia.


So we made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train,

Sixty miles in latitude, three hundred to the main;

Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain

While we were marching through Georgia.


Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee.

Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free,

So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,

While we were marching through Georgia.



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[Gothmog]

12. Not just racist but basically Jim Crow cosplay

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

13. Rachel Maddow reveals the horrible truth about Georgia's corrupt election system

Link to tweet

[workinclasszero]

14. That's what they called Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner for registering AA folks in Mississippi to

vote.

Then the KKK murdered them with the help of local law enforcement.

Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement. The victims were Andrew Goodman and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi.

All three were associated with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and its member organization the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). They had been working with the Freedom Summer campaign by attempting to register African Americans in Mississippi to vote. This registration effort was a part of contesting over 70 years of laws and practices that supported a systematic policy, begun by several states in 1890, of disenfranchisement of potential black voters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Chaney,_Goodman,_and_Schwerner