You could make up for it with a few more 'community organizers'.
You could make up for it with a few more 'community organizers'.
I bet the Republicans in the legislature would be very happy to accomodate another “black” district.
Why not make lemonade out of this lemon, and come up with a way to add plenty more black voters to the Jim Moran district and maybe get rid of this individual in exchange for a black guy to be named later?
Hmmmmm, I guess the black caucus does not like “diversity” in their districts.
“...to have one black member of Congress is “not representative”
What a pathetic token thing to say; this is an admission of inferiority, an inability to win outside of a gerrymandered district. Let’s just give them 10% of the land and be done with them; they can have 100% representation, and pay for 100% of the costs they incur...
Can we PLEASE stop sorting people by melanin level?? Please?
Say whut?? How do you "maximize their opportunity" to elect someone by NOT making them the majority in the district? Send them a couple extra thugs to stand in front of the polls with blackjacks?
I guess they think that they need a Shelia Jackson Lee or Maxine Waters to fairly represent 20% of the state population? This is what gerrymandering produces. I would rather have a great rep of whatever color rather than such as these. It seems as their 20% has not produced any worthy leaders.
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It certainly is representative if the voters decide who represents them.
No race is owed any percentage of seats because of their color.
If we’re going to take that logic then you’d better be prepared for a lot more white guys playing basketball and football professionally.
Creating majority-minority districts has sometimes made it easier for the Republicans to increase their overall share of the seats. But if Eric Holder has to approve any district-drawing, it may be impossible to satisfy him. There may be no way to create a second district that is heavily-enough black to be a sure thing for a black Democrat to win assuming the different parts of the district are contiguous to each other. So what happens if Holder refuses to accept any plan they come up with? There is potential for mischief there when you have an Attorney General who is only thinking in terms of benefiting “my people.”
How is that not a racist statement? So a white candidate running in a "black" district should not even be considered due to the color of his / her skin? What if a "white" district elects a black candidate?
Using Dave’s redistricting, I came up with a contiguous (albeit highly gerrymandered) minority-majority district in Northern Virginia which would either knock out Jim Moran or Keith Fimian. I wonder why the caucus does not want to put it there?
For a state with a 20 percent black population to have one black member of Congress is "not representative," said state Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton, who chairs the Legislative Black Caucus.
The assertion/assumption that people only vote for persons who are the same race as themsleves flies in the face of EVERYTHIING Martin Luther king, Jr. worked for, stood for and died for.
The statements of this woman, and the ideas upon which they are based, are some of the most racist i have heard from the mouth of a politician in Virginia since I was a small child.
They are also wholly incorrect.
More than 20 years ago the voters of Virginia elected Douglas Wilder as our governor. He was the 2nd black American serve as governor of a state in this country.
In 2008, most Virginians voted for Barack Obama to be our president.
NEITHER of the above could have occurred if white Virginians were so racist as to only be willing to vote for a white person.
PS - Bobby Scott is a leftist moonbat wacko liberal democrat.
I dislike him because of his politics, NOT because of the color of his skin.
Race is just a skin color, a ‘social construct’ blah, blah, blah...
I hope I live to see the day when that damnable civil rights act jackboot is removed from the necks of the southern states.