Cal Thomas: Jim Crow and the Georgia voting law
By Cal Thomas - Tribune News Service
At his news conference last week, President Biden said of Georgia’s new voting law, “It makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.”
Jim Crow was not a person, but unlike most former presidents, he has a museum: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia.
The name came from a song written by Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice. From the museum webpage: “Rice, a struggling ‘actor’ (he did short solo skits between play scenes) at the Park Theater in New York, happened upon a black person singing (a song titled ‘Jim Crow’) some accounts say it was an old black slave who walked with difficulty, others say it was a ragged black stable boy. Whether modeled on an old man or a young boy we will never know, but we know that in 1828 Rice appeared on stage as ‘Jim Crow’ an exaggerated, highly stereotypical black character.
Jim Crow and the Georgia Voting Law
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