Originally published at: The Red State Scramble to Gerrymander Away Black Electoral Power Has Been More Blatant Than You’d Expect
Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Red states are scrambling to redraw their congressional maps in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling last week that struck down Louisiana’s second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana v. Callais. The decision obliterated the Voting Rights Act and paved the way for red states to reshape majority-Black…
Roberts’s confirmation hearings in 2006, he was asked about his position on the law, often referred to as the crown jewel of the civil-rights movement. “The existing Voting Rights Act, the constitutionality has been upheld, and I don’t have any issue with that,” he said.
He lied!!!
He has now argued the VRA is no longer necessary because of the election of a black president, so please someone ask him to explain this rush to change the electoral maps esp. in the Southern states.
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This period must be a mandatory addendum to coverage of the civil rights movement in US history textbooks, disproving the lie that racism has been defeated and that race-baiting by politicians is a practice of a bygone era. The prospect of a multi-racial democracy, however flawed, has always terrified a sizable minority of this country, and they’ve never stopped trying to poison, strangle, and stab it out of existence.
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Every Democrat needs to do whatever they have to do to vote, call out sick and miss a day of pay because if you don’t vote you’re going to lose a lot more than a days pay.
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More Blatant? I lived in Alabama for 10 years. This is on Brand for them.
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The prospect of a multi-racial democracy however flawed… What does that mean?
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That where we were in 2015 was obviously insufficient. That non-white citizenship is still conditional and subject to suspicion in ways that white citizenship isn’t. That the cocaine epidemic among black Americans or alcoholism on Native American reservations is a collective failure of the entire community, while opioid abuse among rural whites was the fault of greedy drug companies. That Muslim Americans had a responsibility to contribute to the targeted surveillance of other Muslims while young white men who go on killing rampages are lone wolves whose motivations are mysterious. That the “neutral arbiters” like the NY Times have done so much work to obscure the obvious racial animus among white voters which flared up after the first black PotUS.
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Thanks for clarifying what you meant. . .rather than inherently flawed.
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Why are you surprised. Why. The fact that you are surprised is part of why this happens. I live in the south. Educate yourself.
I know the headline is meant as hyperbole, but nothing about what’s happened has been unexpected. Not the reaction, or the Court’s decision.