New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American history
It’s happening and Americans are either complicit or powerless to do anything about it.
Republicans are cowards
I hope this backfires spectacularly and all the left of center voters turn out in record numbers to flip all these new diluted districts
I swear if I read one more headline of an article attempting to tell me something I’ve been desperately trying to convince people of for a decade I’m gonna need to start drinking before noon
Can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning
Welcome to the club
Worth the read.
It’s disturbing how blatant it is, and the through line from the American Civil War and the failure of Reconstruction to deal with the lingering Confederate elements appropriately.
I can remember so many conversations where someone was just so deeply clueless about how many Americans, mostly living in the South, are still so very deeply resentful of losing that war.
One conversation was in the 90s and I was talking to an H1-B who had just come from Texas, and we were working in the NE. I asked how it was living and working in Texas and he just seemed to brush all that off as something “from the past”.
If only.
This is the aftermath of the supreme court’s disastrous 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v Callais, decided less than a month ago, which gravely weakened the Voting Rights Act’s protections for Black representation. Ever since, Republicans have resembled eager children on Christmas morning, tearing our electoral maps to shreds.
Louisiana
Louisiana is set to eliminate one of its two Black-majority districts. The court let
Alabama
The court let Alabama erase one of its two Black-majority districts before this fall’s primaries.
Mississippi
In Mississippi, the Republican state senator who chairs the Medicaid committee said this week that it was time to “erase Bennie Thompson’s district”.
you utter trash. you absolute excrement of humanity. we will remember every one of you racist fucks. retribution may be delayed, but it will come and your graves will be pissed upon for generations, you loathsome, useless waste of oxygen.
We should have cleaned house after Civil War. Every confederate male over age 12 executed for treason, the rest (women and children) relocated to areas in the north, and all that confederate territory given to the freed slaves.
That’s so surprising, I am shocked. I wonder if anyone could’ve predicted this.
Definitely not. No one ever said that there would be dire consequences to electing racist psychopaths.
Water is wet
Sky is blue
I don’t get a vote
Neither do you.That should be pretty easy for them to achieve, seeing as how this administration can turn the country on its’ head twice a week and no one, seemingly, bats an eye.
The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter
Brave words from The Guardian. They need to be heard.
Did you just quote the title of the article, which is also the title of the post?
Did I?
When the Dems take back the power, they will have to act decisively to declare MAGA a National Security Threat, and purge it from our government and our society. Further, their followers can never hold office under the 14th Amendment, Section 3.
A new conservative party will have to be built from the ground up, without MAGA representation, with a rededication to their traditional core values of smaller government, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility. There needs to be government regulation guiding them, and the moment they try to get racial, or religious, they are disbanded again, and they can start over.
lol
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