@mr_modular ("Allen Nemo") retweeted:
@notstevenwhite ("Steven White") wrote:
A lot of people seem to have developed this idea that Jim Crow era voting restrictions were a series of laws explicitly saying "Black people can't vote," but they very specifically (and strategically) were *not* that (and indeed were much closer to what Georgia is doing now)
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@jbouie ("b-boy bouiebaisse") wrote:
oh look, the Georgia voting law appears to be a set of facially neutral reforms that curtail voting in the most populous and Democratic areas in the state, which also happen to have the largest black populations. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/politics/georgia-voting-law-annotated.html