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If the late Martin Luther King Jr. were to hold the Montgomery bus boycott today, would conservative politicians call him a âwokeâ activist pushing a repressive âcancel cultureâ?
That thought came to mind after Georgiaâs Gov. Brian Kemp, former President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders denounced woke Democrats and cancel culture over Major League Baseballâs decision to move their 2021 All-Star Game out of Georgia to protest the Peach Stateâs new restraints on voting access.
Cancel culture, in case youâve been quarantined on the moon for the past few years, refers to cultural and economic boycotts and general shunning and shaming of people or institutions over their political views or actions. Initiated by the political and social left, the term has been embraced, like âpolitical correctness,â by the right as a cudgel against the left.
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In Georgia, the Fulton County district attorney will not prosecute state Representative Park Cannon, who was arrested last month for knocking on Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s door as he signed a sweeping voter suppression bill. She said the public deserved to witness what was happening. Representative Cannon spoke to CNN last week about her arrest.
Rep. Park Cannon: “It makes me wonder why. Why were they arresting me? Why were they doing this? Why did the world have to experience another traumatizing arrest?”
In related news, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an executive order Tuesday designed to “mitigate the impact” of Georgia’s new voting restrictions. The actions will center on educating voters, helping them obtain identification and training city staff on how to assist voters.
Georgia lawmaker vows ‘I will keep knocking’ after charges dropped from protest arrest
Rep. Park Cannon says she’s not done protesting the state’s elections changes
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The charges against a Georgia state representative arrested last month while protesting the state’s controversial voting law have been dropped, and she vows to continue the fight against the elections changes.
Rep. Park Cannon held a news conference Thursday to talk about the incident that initially got her charged with felony obstruction and disrupting the general assembly session.
“I walked down to the governor’s office because I wanted to be in the room as these men placed nooses around Black and brown voters’ necks,” she said. “I vow to you that I will keep knocking. And I ask you, Georgia, to keep knocking. America, keep knocking. All the marginalized people, keep knocking.”