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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKemp Blasts 'Outside Agitators' After Scrutiny Of Policy Blocking 53K From Voting
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
Though Kemp was perhaps referring to the national media and his gubernatorial opponents 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 states 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
(131,138 posts)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
(83,927 posts)Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)The numbers tell the truth, he can't hide what he's doing.
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)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
(11,744 posts)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
(17,984 posts)Kemp needs to be locked up for this.
dae
(3,396 posts)KKK know he needs their help in the coming election.
RandySF
(59,264 posts)Cha
(297,715 posts)MF Fascist.
RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)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
(145,619 posts)Gothmog
(145,619 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Then the KKK murdered them with the help of local law enforcement.
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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