JD Crowe: Kay Ivey’s stand in the schoolhouse door
This is an opinion cartoon.
“No DEI now. No DEI forever!” – Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is channeling George Wallace.
DEI ain’t the devil, y’all. Diversity, equity and inclusion. It’s what makes America great. Now.
By signing the misguided state legislature’s anti-DEI bill into law, Ivey is in bad company. George Wallace bad company, not the classic rock band, Bad Company. We already figured out Ivey was more of an AC/DC guvnah in a recent caption contest.
Maybe we could have a caption contest with this drawing: What is Kay Ivey saying in this toon? I know what she’s saying. You do too.
Related: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs DEI bill into law: What the ‘divisive concepts’ ban will do – al.com
Related: Alabama Republi-chickens are scared to death of DEI – al.com
Related: Kay Ivey is on the ‘Highway to Hell’: AC/DC rocks the caption contest – al.com
Related: Steve Marshall’s law: Alabama’s war against diversity – al.com
I got a text from my friend and neighbor, Janice, yesterday morning: “My hubby Jim woke up with a vision of Kay Ivey in the schoolhouse door! So sad.”
Sorry for Jim’s nightmare, but thanks for the toon idea!
Then, my friend and colleague Roy S. Johnson reiterated the same thought about Ivey and the George Wallace comparison in his newsletter, The Barbershop (if you haven’t subscribed, you should. Roy brings home the truth.)
I can’t fight the nightmares of my neighbors, the thoughts of my colleagues or the will of the people. Especially when it’s the truth. Gotta jump on that Kay Ivey/George Wallace wave and ride.
That Kay Ivey/Goerge Wallace analogy is truth. And that’s a shame.
It’s 2024 for crying out loud. Nobody should be standing in the schoolhouse door.
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix. Give him a holler @[email protected].
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