Last hurrah for them

I am a white male and I am ashamed of what is happening in my country. I am disgusted by what Republicans are doing to voting rights in this country, especially for African Americans. Georgia just approved a law that makes voting very restrictive. The apparent intent of this law is to make voting as difficult as possible for citizens to vote, especially African Americans. One bizarre provision of the law is to make it illegal to hand out food and water to voters in line. The law is 98 pages long and is full of voter-suppression tactics.

In 2021, Georgia elected two Democrats to Senate seats that had been held by Republicans. One of the men elected to the Senate was African American, a first in Georgia history. This was a free and fair election. Do not believe the lies claimed by Trump and other Republicans about voter fraud. There is a photo of Georgia’s governor signing this voter-suppression bill surrounded by only white males. Ironically, a painting of a slave plantation can be seen in the background.

Jim Crow is back and very healthy. The Republican defense of this law is that they want only legal votes to be counted. Their apparent definition of a legal voter is a white male.

Republican white males in this country are frightened about what happened in the last election and the change it represented. Is this the last hurrah of old white men of privilege? I hope so.

JOHN ROLLANS Little Rock