LAUGHatLEFTISTS
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Please explain how black votes will be marginalized. You can’t so you won’t.
You gotta hand it to them, R's play the long game.
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Please explain how black votes will be marginalized. You can’t so you won’t.
LAUGHatLEFTISTS
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I know what gerrymandering is. I’ve been watching democrats do it for fifty years.
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Yup. It's illegal gerrymander on the basis of race. So no worries.
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If that is what you need to tell yourself as Repubs try to rig the upcoming elections than you apparently can rationalize anything.
Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee’s Majority-Black House District
Tennessee Republicans on Wednesday proposed a congressional map aimed at diluting the state’s lone majority-Black district, a swift response to last week’s Supreme Court ruling that weakened a landmark voting rights law.The new map slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city, and Shelby County into three districts and will most likely give Republicans the ability to flip Tennessee’s lone remaining Democratic seat, which includes the city.
Democratic lawmakers, whose opposition means little under a Republican supermajority in the state’s General Assembly, and Black leaders across Tennessee have compared the effort to carve up the Ninth Congressional District to Jim Crow-era voter suppression tactics. They have accused conservatives of a power grab that undermines Black voters in Memphis, who have long favored Democrats.
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The New Jim Crow
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision effectively endorsing gerrymanders that disenfranchise Black voters, an outbreak of racism has spread through Southern state legislatures. Tennessee Republicans are pretending Black voters in Memphis don’t exist. Florida Republicans seem to have forgotten that Floridians voted to adopt a constitutional amendment banning both political and racial gerrymanders. And then, there’s Alabama.
Alabama has been at the center of the gerrymandering wars for years. In a surprise victory for Black voters, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor in a case known as Milligan. That case reached the Court after a three-judge panel in Birmingham unanimously concluded that it was not a “close” call whether the maps drawn by the legislature violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and barred the maps from being used.
The initial decision striking down the maps was authored by District Judge Anna Manasco, a Trump appointee. She was joined by another Trump appointee from Alabama, District Judge Terry Moorer, as well as Judge Stanley Marcus, a Reagan appointee to the Eleventh Circuit. You get the point: the maps were bad. They went beyond politics. They were about race.
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There is a lesson to be learned from what the R's have done. That is, use power ruthlessly when you have it. This time to openly rig elections on a scale and by methods never seen before.
The lesson for D's is, when the wheel turns and you are back in power do the same to R's as they are doing. The days of comity are over. The R's are trying to solidify minority control of the country and that effort should be met with all the force D's can muster when the chance arises.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision effectively endorsing gerrymanders that disenfranchise Black voters, an outbreak of racism has spread through Southern state legislatures. Tennessee Republicans are pretending Black voters in Memphis don’t exist. Florida Republicans seem to have forgotten that Floridians voted to adopt a constitutional amendment banning both political and racial gerrymanders. And then, there’s Alabama.
Alabama has been at the center of the gerrymandering wars for years. In a surprise victory for Black voters, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor in a case known as Milligan. That case reached the Court after a three-judge panel in Birmingham unanimously concluded that it was not a “close” call whether the maps drawn by the legislature violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and barred the maps from being used.
The initial decision striking down the maps was authored by District Judge Anna Manasco, a Trump appointee. She was joined by another Trump appointee from Alabama, District Judge Terry Moorer, as well as Judge Stanley Marcus, a Reagan appointee to the Eleventh Circuit. You get the point: the maps were bad. They went beyond politics. They were about race.
The New Jim Crow
What happened in Alabama today
There is a lesson to be learned from what the R's have done. That is, use power ruthlessly when you have it. This time to openly rig elections on a scale and by methods never seen before.
The lesson for D's is, when the wheel turns and you are back in power do the same to R's as they are doing. The days of comity are over. The R's are trying to solidify minority control of the country and that effort should be met with all the force D's can muster when the chance arises.
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Commies be like:
GERRYMANDERING! WE PHUCKING INVENTED IT! HOW DARE YOU USE OUR INVENTION AGAINST US!
GERRYMANDERING! WE PHUCKING INVENTED IT! HOW DARE YOU USE OUR INVENTION AGAINST US!
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