Sounds like Cynthia is embarrassed by the likes of Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Lee, John Conyers, etc. etc. Affirmative action always produces inferior results, our current president being Exhibit A.
Cynthia Tucker says “I was wrong.”
She should say the same in every single column she ever writes.
If only they realize sooner that every policy has unintended consequences. Some of them work against the very cause they try to accomplish with the policy.
So what does Cynthia want? Districts that are gerrymandered to be 60% or more Dem registration, like here in the Southern California locality where I live? The Marxists in Sacramento didn’t gerrymander by race so much as by voter registration. That’s why they’ve dominated the legislature here for so long.
Yep. That John Lewis guy is as honest as the day is long; as he proved last March when all those Tea Partiers were shouting the n-word at him 15 times.
Not bad, Cynthia: it only took you 30 years to get to what the rest of us have known for, well, at least 30 years!
Your stupidity and narrow-mindedness have never stopped you from rendering your opinions, though, have they?
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Gerrymandered districts truly are an abomination. Any thinking person should oppose them on principle. The fact that they have resulted in a bevy of corrupt, racist morons in congress is just part of the problem. Still, it’s hilarious how this dumb Democratic idea insures that a good percentage of the Dem caucus consists of crooks, and has resulted in a natural Republican majority in congress.
No, Cynthia. Black voters would have more influence if they stopped voting 90% Democrat, putting all their eggs in one basket, and that happens to be the non-majority party.
You get James Clyburn, we get a Republican state, not a bad deal in SC.
That ain't news. Well, maybe to Tucker it is.
Let me guess, she wants a do-over now that she realized she is an idiot. That ain't news either.
We don't want those freaking liberal retards in our districts!
Democrats are VERY lucky their power base is in the Northeast where the states are very small, and thus get 2 senators for an area not much larger than a large city in the south. Nearly the whole northeast should be turned into ONE large state with only 2 liberal senators, THAT would fix a lot of stuff.
You reaps what you sows, you racist.
See you don’t get it...liberal want their cake and eat it too...They want both sides of the argument. Facts be daymned...I always tell black folks that playing racial and identity politics are a losing game, but they arent quite ready for it.
This is what happens when you play racial identity politics and you are only about 10% of the population. You lose.
You elect idiots that only run on race, inflaming everyone with their race pimping so they get re-elected over and over. So of course the natural reaction is to give a double fistful to you fool suckas chased with a garden hose cocktail to wash it down.
So buy yourself a cup of STFU already Miss Cynthia. You did this to yourself.
She's wrong in demagoguing Republicans, however. I don't see how "ultraconservatives" are appropriately depicted as battle flag and kenyan-born Obama conspiracy types.
How conveeeeeenient.
"Moderation", she says. That's kinda like Nancy Pelosi being interested in "bipartisanship", right after the Dims get their @$$es kicked at the ballot box.
What the hell can anyone expect from the idiot that “suggested” America air-drop SPAM over Iraq as aid?
CBC even embarasses the left.
If only Blacks weren’t so racist and would vote for White Republicans at least some of the time, I could listen to you Cynthia, but since that isn’t happening any time soon go pound sand.