[Russica in Georgia:] Georgia governor signed a voter suppression law under a painting of a slave plantation
An investigation into a legacy of Georgia's white supremacy hiding in plain sight behind the state's new Jim Crow-style voting law.
--By Will Bunch | columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer, published Mar 26, 2021Image from article: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and allies as he signed his state's new voting law in his office Thursday
Sometimes America’s legacy of white supremacy is hiding in plain sight, literally. When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a hastily passed voter suppression law that many are calling the new, new Jim Crow on Thursday night, surrounded by a half-dozen white men, he did so in front of a painting of a plantation where more than 100 Black people had been enslaved. ...
As Kemp’s tweet of the closed-door bill-signing ceremony was making the rounds Thursday night, I had questions about the Old South-looking scene that the governor’s office had centered in the photo. Thanks to crowd-sourcing and specifically the help of my Twitter pal Brendan McGinn (@TheSeaFarmer), I learned that the painting is called “Brickhouse Road — Callaway PLNT” (PLNT for “Plantation ... subtle, right?) by Siberian-born artist Olessia Maximenko, who now resides in the area of Wilkes County* in east-central Georgia. ...
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*"Wilkes County was once known as the 'Moonshine Capital of the World', and was a leading producer of illegal homemade liquor. From the 1920s to the 1950s some young Wilkes County males made their living by delivering moonshine to North Carolina's larger towns and cities." -- from; see also
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Image from; tweet text [by Rain Lover] notes the words of olessiaart Nice people...Brian and Marty Kemp she is the one who was choosing art. they really love my haystacks and Callaway plantation..
Same tweet by Rain Lover notes:
Maximenko is a good ol' Southern name! She is from Siberia - what is this love affair between Russians and Southern white supremacists? [...]
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