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 ...
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