Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

WATCH: Tennessee Democrat Compares Republicans to KKK Members “in Suits” Over Redistricting Fight
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | May. 10, 2026 | Gregory Lyakhov

Posted on 05/11/2026 6:26:29 AM PDT by V_TWIN

Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones appeared on MSNOW Sunday and delivered exactly the kind of racialized political rhetoric the modern left has made routine.

The interview centered on Tennessee Republicans’ redistricting push, which would split Memphis into multiple congressional districts and likely weaken the state’s only Democrat congressional seat.

Democrats immediately framed the move as an attack on black voters, while Republicans argued the map was about politics, not race.

Redistricting is political by nature. Both parties use maps to gain power by controlling state legislatures.

Democrats have done the same in states across the country. Massachusetts, for example, has no Republican congressional seats despite being less blue than Tennessee is red. Yet when Republicans act in their own political interest, Democrats suddenly discover a new moral crisis.

Jones did not merely criticize the map. He turned a partisan redistricting fight into a sweeping accusation of racial terror.

During the interview, Jones claimed Republicans were carrying out “policy violence” and compared Tennessee’s GOP lawmakers to the “children of Jim Crow,” Bull Connor and George Wallace.

At one point, he said a Republican leader had “taken off the white hood” but still had the same intentions as those who came before him.

That kind of language is not normal political disagreement. It is a dangerous attempt to paint Republican lawmakers as Klansmen because they support a congressional map Democrats dislike.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: commieshasthesads; democrats; democratshasthesads; dnciskkk; justinjones; meltdown; scotus; tennessee; vra

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-39 next last
-

I posted this to say two things.

1. The Klan was a born of the democratic party but this idiot is too uneducated to know thst.

2. If we WERE the Klan, this jackass and other race hustlers of his ilk woulda done a disappearing act a long time ago......again, this moron is too thick to realize that.

-

1 posted on 05/11/2026 6:26:29 AM PDT by V_TWIN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

It’s the same ole tired rhetoric from the left.

Nazis
KKK
Fascists
Racists

etc,etc,etc...


2 posted on 05/11/2026 6:28:36 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

Exactly. The KKK was started in Pulaski, Tennessee by Democrats who hated the fact that blacks were free. It was the paramilitary arm of the Democrat Party that was looking to terrorize blacks into NOT voting for Republicans so that Democrats could stay in power. The irony of Democrats calling Republicans KKK members is galling.


3 posted on 05/11/2026 6:29:16 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Opinionated Blowhard

They also hated Catholics, especially ‘Polacks’.


4 posted on 05/11/2026 6:31:18 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

And don’t forget the Jooooose!


5 posted on 05/11/2026 6:33:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

And don’t forget the Jooooose!


That goes without saying.


6 posted on 05/11/2026 6:33:51 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

The democrats created Slave Districts and want to keep their Slaves


7 posted on 05/11/2026 6:34:02 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

If the black population in the United States started voted for the political parties in approximately the same ratios as the other socioeconomic groups, then there would not be the same clamor for “majority-minority” congressional districts. Much of the US is now becoming color-blind, a principle stated so long ago by MLK Jr.

Not the color of your skin, but the content of your character.


8 posted on 05/11/2026 6:36:20 AM PDT by alloysteel (The body may betray or fail. The spirit shall endure and prevail. Courage, courage.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

If the black population in the United States started voted for the political parties in approximately the same ratios as the other socioeconomic groups, then there would not be the same clamor for “majority-minority” congressional districts. Much of the US is now becoming color-blind, a principle stated so long ago by MLK Jr.

Not the color of your skin, but the content of your character.


9 posted on 05/11/2026 6:38:41 AM PDT by alloysteel (The body may betray or fail. The spirit shall endure and prevail. Courage, courage.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: alloysteel

If the black population in the United States started voted for the political parties in approximately the same ratios as the other socioeconomic groups, then there would not be the same clamor for “majority-minority” congressional districts. Much of the US is now becoming color-blind, a principle stated so long ago by MLK Jr.


Free your mind
And the rest will follow

Be colorblind
Don’t be so shallow


10 posted on 05/11/2026 6:40:05 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

The Dims are actually in such an enraged state that they’re talking about “getting rid of” the entire VA Supreme Court and replacing them with their own hand-picked stooges.

As if they have time for this.


11 posted on 05/11/2026 6:40:09 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

12 posted on 05/11/2026 6:40:27 AM PDT by FLT-bird
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: butlerweave
The democrats created Slave Districts and want to keep their Slaves

And what's old is new again. They still want their slaves. Anyone seen Alejandro Mayorkas?

13 posted on 05/11/2026 6:41:24 AM PDT by paulcissa (The left hates you and wants you dead.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

BOTH SIDES DO IT.


14 posted on 05/11/2026 6:42:24 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

Same old same old. It never changes. Morons can’t think of anything new.


15 posted on 05/11/2026 6:44:15 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: alloysteel

If the White population in this country stuck together like the blacks I would submit that there would more than likely be a hell of a lot less of this jackassery going on to begin with.

But White people are scared to death of the accusation of being racist.

Never in the history of the world has one word had more of a negative influence on a race....it truly is unbelievable and it’s more than likely THE greatest falsehood ever perpetuated in our country.

With covid shots being effective as a close second.


16 posted on 05/11/2026 6:46:33 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

“They also hated Catholics, especially ‘Polacks’.”

Yeah, and that’s why they founded it in a city named Pulaski. Sheesh.


17 posted on 05/11/2026 6:47:09 AM PDT by rxh4n1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: FLT-bird
IMHO the final solution is to use Maidenhead grid squares.

It gets politics and race entirely out of the picture and reduces the travel distance for candidates and representatives.

As I have posted about Maidenhead Grids, I've noticed folks from all parts of the political spectrum are for it, nobody against it.

I just now finally found a good explanation of how it and the sub squares works. Grid Square Locator System Explained

18 posted on 05/11/2026 6:47:37 AM PDT by Mogger ( 7th generation Vermonter, refugee in New Hampshire hoping NH remains sane.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: V_TWIN

Racial accusations are all the Democrats have left.

They cannot argue their positions - open borders, higher taxes, pro-trans policies including surgeries on children, anti-White, DEI open discrimination, defunding police - and win.

Ask Spencer Pratt in California:

“Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman is desperately backpedaling from her former ‘defund the police’ rhetoric in a dramatic campaign U-turn that could alienate her far-left base.”


19 posted on 05/11/2026 6:50:58 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

20 posted on 05/11/2026 6:51:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-39 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson