Gerrymander based on ideology instead of race

[DBCowboy]

Assigning voting districts by race, is in itself, inherently racist.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Ideo your prejudices are showing.

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Also, the pay gap I believe you are referring to isn't taking into account people doing the same job. Which leads to another question and another question and another question and the more questions I ask the deeper into social programs it goes and undervalued property in black communities all leading to lower taxes for public schools which is why they are underrepresented in colleges which lead to the roles in the work force with higher pay that you believe there's a gap in when the real gap is the fact that these kids aren't applying themselves in public schools or to these colleges. Maybe we should get to the root of the problem instead of white man bad and instill in our children the importance of an education instead of a victim mentality and defeatism.

So?

Its like is watching white people hijack the words of Dr. King and enforce his dream through an underhanded and deliberate verbatim definition that actually limits their congressional representation.

There are/were 26 majority black districts in the House of Representatives, most of which are in Republican Southern States. Now 15 are at risk, all in Southerm States. 

Including but not limited to:

Louisiana: District 2, 6
Alabama: 1, 2
Tennessee: 1
Georgia: 2, 6, 13
North Carolina: 1
South Carolina: 1

With Ohio, Florida, Missouri as well...

So I notice a trend... and i dont care if it is prejudice showing to call it out. We get 4 years to be the turning point now.

And it reads like the southern republican white people found a way to revolt against the Democrat cities and districts full of black people and dilute their congressional voice overall while maintaining that its STICTLY about party ideology. 
 

As of the 119th Congress (convened January 2025), approximately 93% of majority-Black congressional districts are represented by a Black representative.

So thats 13 fewer safe black reps if redistricting goes though. 

And for 40+ years the 14th amendment was AGAIN interpreted wildly differently, until it wasn't anymore AGAIN and AGAIN. An equal protection clause reinterpretation here, a due process clause there.

Years of precedence aimed at equality was AGAIN inverted overnight, deemed racist, and molded into another brick in the project 2025 wall.

Drawing districts for Black representation was generally considered a legal requirement to comply with the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, rather than racist, for nearly 40 years. The legal landscape shifted in 2024–2026 due to Supreme Court rulings that increasingly interpreted race-conscious map-drawing as a violation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

Well, at least they found a clause they can interpret differently and use it to systemically make America more palatable to the "traditional" patriarch.  

Its almost comical: in the name of equality and stopping "racism" they overturned decades of precedent that enabled black representation in congress for being reverse racist, like it was a political affirmative action thing to be done away with.

And more to my prejudice point, I'm sick of what i see as the gaslight of MAGAs systemic insertion of white christian nationalism disguised as meritocracy and freedom, knowing full well who benefits most.

[DBCowboy]

So?

Its like is watching white people hijack the words of Dr. King and enforce his dream through an underhanded and deliberate verbatim definition that actually limits their congressional representation.

There are/were 26 majority black districts in the House of Representatives, most of which are in Republican Southern States. Now 15 are at risk, all in Southerm States. 

Including but not limited to:

Louisiana: District 2, 6
Alabama: 1, 2
Tennessee: 1
Georgia: 2, 6, 13
North Carolina: 1
South Carolina: 1

With Ohio, Florida, Missouri as well...

So I notice a trend... and i dont care if it is prejudice showing to call it out. 

Reads like the southern republican white people found a way to revolt against the Democrat cities and districts full of black people and dilute their congressional voice overall while maintaining that its STICTLY about party ideology. 
 

So thats 13 fewer safe black reps if redistricting goes though. 

And for 40+ years the 14th amendment was AGAIN interpreted wildly differently, until it wasn't anymore AGAIN and AGAIN. An equal protection clause reinterpretation here, a due process clause there.

Years of precedence aimed at equality was AGAIN inverted overnight, deemed racist, and molded into another brick in the project 2025 wall.

Well, at least they found a clause they can interpret differently and use it to systemically make America more palatable to the "traditional" patriarch.  

Its almost comical: in the name of equality and stopping "racism" they overturned decades of precedent that enabled black representation in congress for being reverse racist, like it was a political affirmative action thing to be done away with.

And more to my prejudice point, I'm sick of what i see as the gaslight of MAGAs systemic insertion of white christian nationalism disguised as meritocracy and freedom, knowing full well who benefits most.

You think black people can't become representatives without gaming the system?

That they can't achieve based on merit?

THAT thinking is racist.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

You think black people can't become representatives without gaming the system?

That they can't achieve based on merit?

THAT thinking is racist.

You can gaslight yourself, but save it on me.

119th Congress Breakdown: Of the 61 Black members in the House, roughly 74% represent majority-minority districts, leaving about 15 to 16 members representing majority-white or plurality-white districts.

Not necessarily black districts, but minority-majority.

And its not racist to note society is such that 75% get elected in these districts. Betting on a black candidate winning one of these districts is better than changing your pick with Monty Hall.  

So its more a reality THEY WIN FAR LESS outside minority-majority districts, which actually says more about voter preference, predjudice, and their odds.

But 1/4 elected can still defy that all and win a white district, though they are largely New England and West Coast districts.

As of the 119th Congress (2025–2027), approximately 87.5% of white-majority congressional districts represented by a Black member are in Democratic states.

[DBCowboy]

You can gaslight yourself, but save it on me.

Not necessarily black districts, but minority-majority.

And its not racist to note society is such that 75% get elected in these districts. Betting on a black candidate winning one of these districts is better than changing your pick with Monty Hall.  

So its more a reality THEY WIN FAR LESS outside minority-majority districts, which actually says more about voter preference, predjudice, and their odds.

But 1/4 elected can still defy that all and win a white district, though they are largely New England and West Coast districts.

To demand/require that your representative be the same skin color as you, is. . . . well . . . racist.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

To demand/require that your representative be the same skin color as you, is. . . . well . . . racist.

To be fair, only 16 of 61 are "same race" selections. Another 30 are in "minority-majority," and the rest are white districts. 

It is actualy more a minorities vs. systematic white dominance thing in play. The CRT thing that doesnt exist. 

Like the sister in the Bronx is absolutely good with AOC and vice versa.

But still, of the districts most at risk of losing their reps to redistricting, few are the 30 minority-majority, none are in white districts, but mostly one of the 16 black districts with black representatives. And almost exclusively in southern states.  

So Its hard not to make biased insinuations of veiled racism finding a way through a veneer of equality.

[BeyondKnowledge]

You think black people can't become representatives without gaming the system?

That they can't achieve based on merit?

THAT thinking is racist.

Careful now. Someone will bring up that many of the leaders of the Democrat party think minorities are not capable of getting an id. They seem to think minorities as a group are stupid or something. 

Now that is racist thinking.

[DBCowboy]

To be fair, only 16 of 61 are "same race" selections. Another 30 are in "minority-majority," and the rest are white districts. 

It is actualy more a minorities vs. systematic white dominance thing in play. The CRT thing that doesnt exist. 

Like the sister in the Bronx is absolutely good with AOC and vice versa.

But still, of the districts most at risk of losing their reps to redistricting, few are the 30 minority-majority, none are in white districts, but mostly one of the 16 black districts with black representatives. And almost exclusively in southern states.  

So Its hard not to make biased insinuations of veiled racism finding a way through a veneer of equality.

Race isn't nor should it ever be a factor.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Race isn't nor should it ever be a factor.

Oh, how magnanimous. Dont tell that to people marketing Tyler Perry movies, or maybe come off your high horse? 

Otherwise, this needs the MLK "content of character" quote to really cap it off. 

I thought we were all tribal? And it's human nature to prefer like-minded people? Or want to mingle with and vote for like-minded people you identify with most?  

Aren't black districts a perfect cultural representation of this phenomenon? Are we kidding ourselves that there isnt such thing as "black culture?" 

I think what it REALLY came down to is the longstanding interpretation of civil rights doctrine that made it to where black pride was put on a sacred guilt pedestal, while the white version was demonized as evil and deemed reminiscent of past atrocity.

So its MORE revenge for the previous systematic attack on white culture, and all this is another convenient landing spot for the law of retribution again.

Its brilliant for turning the interpretation of whats actually racist on its head, and pivoting to a strict meritocracy that is so far above racism now, only those still stuck on race now question it.  As true equality means no more preference for homogenous cultural representatives, and shame on liberal judges that previously determined black districts were a constitutional mandate. 

So all I can do now is bitch about it and get shot down... usually in 15 words or less!

[DBCowboy]

Oh, how magnanimous. Dont tell that to people marketing Tyler Perry movies, or maybe come off your high horse? 

Otherwise, this needs the MLK "content of character" quote to really cap it off. 

I thought we were all tribal? And it's human nature to prefer like-minded people? Or want to mingle with and vote for like-minded people you identify with most?  

Aren't black districts a perfect cultural representation of this phenomenon? Are we kidding ourselves that there isnt such thing as "black culture?" 

I think what it REALLY came down to is the longstanding interpretation of civil rights doctrine that made it to where black pride was put on a sacred guilt pedestal, while the white version was demonized as evil and deemed reminiscent of past atrocity.

So its MORE revenge for the previous systematic attack on white culture, and all this is another convenient landing spot for the law of retribution again.

Its brilliant for turning the interpretation of whats actually racist on its head, and pivoting to a strict meritocracy that is so far above racism now, only those still stuck on race now question it.  As true equality means no more preference for homogenous cultural representatives, and shame on liberal judges that previously determined black districts were a constitutional mandate. 

So all I can do now is bitch about it and get shot down... usually in 15 words or less!

Do all white people think the same?

Do all black people thiink the same?

To insinuate, is racist.