Funny how the people who claim to oppose racism are up in arms that race isn’t the driving factor in districting. Almost like they’re not opposed to racism at all, they just want to use it for their own ends.
Racism already is a driving factor in how Republicans draw district maps. There is no other plausible explanation for why there has never been more than one Black representative in a state in which over a quarter of voters are Black.
It’s not racist to be capable of identifying the effects of racism. It’s not racist to try to eliminate the effects of racism.
They fully recognize race is a factor. They are only recognizing two distant areas with a high population of black people shouldn’t be one district. If you look at the map it’s grouping two random areas together that’s are not even close and it just happens to be areas with more black people. Democrats recognize race and that it plays a factor in this country, republicans deny race exists and that it plays a factor while designing a system that systematically targets people of color.
And yet, they’re 10th in line holding their hands out for federal funding. Seems like it’s time to shut off the tap and see how strong their disgusting ass convictions are.
And new instance is created … Alabama’s Disgusting Ass Convictions.
jk lol
why do the Democrats want to redistrict? is it because they’re losing? some other reason?
1/7 districts (14%) were majority black, but the population is 27% black. The argument was that the black voters were unfairly concentrated into one district and diluted into the other 6 so as to limit their effective representation in the government.
who forced them to live in that district? couldnt they just move? presumably they’d move somewhere else, not stay in Alabama
If you suddenly got notified that the place you live has been redistricted to put you in a district which reduces your voting power, would you be ok with your “solution” of uprooting your entire life, changing jobs, finding a new place to stay, and re-registering to vote? Or would you maybe pursue a less completely-insane solution to the problem?
If there are no consequences here…that means states can just keep enforcing gun bans SCOTUS deemed unconstitutional and that all rulings from the Supreme Court have no merit.
