“Old times there are not forgotten” Department

Will Bunch (Philadelphia Inquirer) put up this Twitter thread just now and you should not miss it.

2. Notice the antebellum-style portrait behind Kemp as he signs the suppression law? Thanks to Twitter crowdsourcing and particularly @TheSeaFarmer, I can report the measure to limit Black voting was signed under the image of a notorious slave plantation in Wilkes County, GA
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) March 26, 2021

4. Today, the Callaway Plantation is a 56-acre historic site where — as the ExploreGeorgia website cheerily notes — tourists can get "a glimpse into the by-gone era of working plantations in the agricultural South." https://t.co/BslVZYLSC4
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) March 26, 2021

6. The harsh reality of life for slaves in the era of the Callaway Plantation is captured in this oral-history "slave narrative" of Mariah Callaway, a woman who was born into slavery on the plantation in 1852. In her account, she notes that… https://t.co/oW8Pq5tf0y
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) March 26, 2021

8. Visitors today to the Callaway Plantation say this legacy of inhumanity is downplayed. One wrote on Trip Advisor the slave cabin "is hidden in some trees and mentioned as an afterthought and something you can go to and look at yourself." https://t.co/RYtMkpwif1
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) March 26, 2021

10. …enacted a series of harsh Jim Crow laws to segregate all public facilities and block Black people from voting. The state, for all of Atlanta's "Too Busy To Hate" bluster, was a KKK hotbed in the 1960s' civil rights era, and in the 1980s…
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) March 26, 2021

12. …of Kemp signing this bill — that makes it illegal to give water to voters waiting on the sometimes 10-hour lines that state policies create in mostly Black precincts — under the image of a brutal slave plantation is almost too much to bear.
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) March 26, 2021

14… that took place behind the placid scenery of Brickhouse Road in Wilkes County, to the suppression now hidden behind a phony facade of "voter integrity." This legacy is a crime against humanity, and it cannot stand – 30 –
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) March 26, 2021

Republican strategist Mike Murphy Thursday night called the new law “a big, stupid blunder for the Republican Party” that has led “even rock-ribbed, conservative federalists” like himself to look at federalizing election laws [timestamp 29:30].

Getting back to Kemp and his gaggle, speaking of big, stupid blunders, shouldn’t their suits be gray?