Posted on 12/18/2021 1:37:24 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
More than 30 years ago, Robert Reives Sr. marched into a meeting of his county government in Sanford, North Carolina, with a demand: Create a predominantly Black district in the county, which was 23% Black at the time but had no Black representation, or face a lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act.
The county commission refused, and Reives prepared to sue. But after the county settled and redrew its districts, he was elected in 1990 as Lee County’s first Black commissioner, a post he has held comfortably ever since.
Until this year.
Republicans, newly in power and in control of the redrawing of county maps, extended the district to the northeast, adding more rural and suburban white voters to the mostly rural district southwest of Raleigh, effectively diluting the influence of its Black voters.
Almost all of the affected lawmakers are Democrats, and most of the mapmakers are white Republicans.
But the effect remains the same: less political power for communities of color.
“Let’s call it a five-alarm fire,” G.K. Butterfield, a Black congressman from North Carolina, said of the current round of congressional redistricting.
He is retiring next year after Republicans removed Pitt County, which is about 35% Black, from his district.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
The gravy train come home goosed?
Rayciss.
Cry me a river, New York Times. What about Maryland?
Article written by slave drivers. Fredrick Douglas would whup there buts.
Why would the GOP want to deliberately elect and draw lines to help the opposition ? Would the Demonrats do that for the GOP ?
Behind The Curtain: How The New York Times Manufactures Lies For Democrats To Attack Their Opponents
So there are no colorblind reps? Only black reps can understand black constituent problems? That is such a racist attitude.
How, exactly, are black problems different from white problems? The whole article and its premise is virulently racist.
Horrible. Everyone knows “Blacks” are the majority. Just watch TV, it’s obvious.
When this war goes kinetic.. which is coming.. our world is going to look a lot different when these people are gone.
Wait until the Hispanics start demanding their own districts in states just like California.....Will blacks cry racism>?????
They are lucky White folks don’t stick together like they do.....if we did they’d all be back in Africa by now.....or at least not here.
Which is probly what shoulda happened after emancipation proclamation.
Create a district that is predominantly black so a black candidate is guaranteed to win and blacks are happy. Well, until they note that by redrawing the lines to create the guaranteed black district, they don’t have quite the power they did in other districts because blacks formerly in those districts are now included in the guaranteed black district. So they get one black district representative. By not engaging in racial politics they might have reached out to others and won their votes and had additional black representatives instead of having a single guaranteed representative.
Funny...missed those articles by the nyt warning over dims redrawing maps and displacing reps.
What is all this panic around securing free and fair elections?
oh. wait...
Free and fair elections are racist.
Can’t have that. /s
Look at the changes in New Mexico.
Maybe they will as an unforeseen consequence of CRT which lumps all whites together and treats them as an evil race.
Gerrymandered now means to connect black and Hispanic neighborhoods together so they are guaranteed a black or hispanic candidate.
Replublicans are NOT Gerrymandering, they are just blocking things off in a logical, simple way, thus making it harder for a black or hispanic candiate to win unless its a majority minority area.
Now, NOT Gerrymandering is “Racist”.
Obviously the Constitution intended for state legislators to “gerrymander” for the purpose of stacking representation in favor of the in-party. Given that American blacks vote 80-90 percent Democrat it would be impossible to gerrymander for party affiliation without appearing to racially gerrymander.
Impossible.
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