New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American history
I hope this backfires spectacularly and all the left of center voters turn out in record numbers to flip all these new diluted districts
This is the aftermath of the supreme court’s disastrous 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v Callais, decided less than a month ago, which gravely weakened the Voting Rights Act’s protections for Black representation. Ever since, Republicans have resembled eager children on Christmas morning, tearing our electoral maps to shreds.
Louisiana
Louisiana is set to eliminate one of its two Black-majority districts. The court let
Alabama
The court let Alabama erase one of its two Black-majority districts before this fall’s primaries.
Mississippi
In Mississippi, the Republican state senator who chairs the Medicaid committee said this week that it was time to “erase Bennie Thompson’s district”.
you utter trash. you absolute excrement of humanity. we will remember every one of you racist fucks. retribution may be delayed, but it will come and your graves will be pissed upon for generations, you loathsome, useless waste of oxygen.
That should be pretty easy for them to achieve, seeing as how this administration can turn the country on its’ head twice a week and no one, seemingly, bats an eye.
