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Gerrymandering is ugly. Everyone does it. And it’s made the country and both parties worse.
And obviously building districts around race in any capacity, whether to break up districts or to create them, is wrong. But the Supreme Court, which just shut down systemic racism in college admissions, has demanded that Alabama create black majority districts.
Blacks make up slightly more than one-fourth of the population. Alabama’s current map, which has not changed much since 1992, has one majority black district out of seven.
Last year, a three-judge district court ruled that Alabama’s map most likely violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the influence of black voters. The Supreme Court’s ruling in June affirmed that.
The three-judge district court said that to fix the problem, Alabama needed to add a second district that was majority black or close to that to give black voters an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice in a state with racially polarized voting.
Districts should be based on geography and general population, not on race. Racial gerrymandering is even worse than regular gerrymandering. If the issue is creating majority Democrat districts, that’s bad enough, but districts should not be based on race. We don’t have a racial republic or democracy. There’s no room for white or black supremacy in allotting voting areas. Then the next step would be to give black people more votes or other equity practices. We know how gerrymandering works and we know how to get rid of it.
Racial majority districts for white or black people are not the answer.
The SCOTUS non-leftists are willing to make a point about some issues before them, but are scared to make the same point about all related issues.
Whenever they want to bail, they invoke standing as the magic tool to make troublesome cases go away.. On big issues, it often appears that nobody can have standing. How convenient! Seme plaintiffs get there too early, Bye-bye! Some get there too late. Bye-bye! There is no right time when the court wants to dodge.
I’ve seen gerrymandering in the SF Bay Area which was quite absurd. Of course it served its purpose of creating safe districts. Another form of election fraud.
“Then the next step would be to give black people more votes or other equity practices.”
Good deployment of the slippery-slope fallacy. Your sophistical skills almost match your total lack of integrity.
The next step? What planet are you on Yank?
He’s a psycho, look him up
I am not hostile to Black Americans. But I do oppose anyone–white, black, brown, red, yellow–who is Marxist. I have noticed that most of the black members of Congress are sympathetic, and even outright supportive, of Marxist policies. I do not understand this. I am fearful of this. The thing about black Congressional districts in the Southern States is that there is a very good likelihood that these black Congressional district voters will elect Marxist D’rats who will further add to the Marxist D’rat numbers in the Congress. This is a real problem that must be recognized and dealt with. Our Federal laws cannot be interpreted to guarantee the election of Marxists to Congress. I suppose now that some budding young communist wannabe somewhere will now scream at me: racist, Racist, RACIST!