Brian Kemp is a Klansman

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🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On Gaslit Nation, we often say that America’s history is an authoritarian one for nonwhite people. That brutal legacy flows directly through the family of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. His ancestors were among the first to bring enslaved Africans to Georgia and fought to prevent America’s Founding Fathers from banning slavery in the Declaration of Independence. Fast forward to today: Brian Kemp continues that legacy by denying voting rights to the descendants of those his ancestors enslaved. And in Georgia, you can’t even learn about this history because Kemp has worked to suppress it—that’s how he holds onto power.

As the must-watch documentary Vigilantes, Inc. by investigative journalist Greg Palast reveals, “suppressing history suppresses the vote.” Narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Martin Sheen, George DiCaprio, and Maria Florio, the film is available for free at SaveYourVote.org, a site launched by Leonardo DiCaprio. The name Vigilantes, Inc. traces back to 1946, when the Ku Klux Klan used it as a cover for their operations. Today, Kemp is leading the charge to use the Klan’s playbook to steal Georgia for Donald Trump in 2024, and MAGA has a new A.I. weapon.

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0:00.0	I'm going to go. Okay, so what is this again?
0:14.7	Okay, so what is this again? The Georgia Secession Flag. It's the Georgia Secession Flag. So this is Georgia's own state flag.
0:31.0	And some people called it the Georgia Republic flag because Georgia was an state flag. And some people called it the Georgia Republic flag
0:33.7	because Georgia was an independent republic
0:35.7	for 26 days before they joined the Confederacy.
0:40.0	Is this should be your future flag?
0:42.0	That's what that man over there said.
0:44.0	Yeah, what do you think?
0:45.0	I agree with him.
0:47.0	I agree with him.
0:48.0	The way things is going, we're going to do something.
0:49.0	So is it time to, uh, I think it's time to rebel?
0:52.0	It's time to do something. Time to do something if we don't get it back in November.
0:57.2	Well, we need to try to let the ride officials into government office. We need to get rid of wokism, cancel culture,
1:06.0	and all these things that's killing America. Do you think that you can get a fair
1:10.7	election in Georgia? I think now we can hopefully. Why now what's
1:16.6	changed? The older loss. So I'm down in Georgia with these grown men dressed up for civil war and they're all
1:24.7	excited about this new voting law in Georgia a law they're certain will allow the
1:29.6	South to rise again laws called 202, and it's 98 pages of breathtaking obstacles to voting.
1:37.7	I mean, they've made mail-in voting nearly illegal.
1:41.0	They've shuttered ballot dropboxes. They've cut Sunday black soles to the polls day.
1:45.6	And if you hand someone a slice of pizza or a bottle of water while they're waiting in line for five hours,
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