re: This proposed district map of Louisiana is absolutely nuts

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Culturally, that map ain't bad.

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I don’t know what that means. How do you define culturally and how to you define “ain’t that bad”?

What makes a district map good or bad? Serious question.

The goal of these districts is racist on multiple fronts.

1) It assumes that making the Congress include more black representatives is a higher priority and a greater good than simply getting the best representatives, however you define “best”.

2) It assumes that black voters can only best be represented by a black person.

3) It assumes that a black candidate would never be elected in a majority white district.

4) It assumes that Louisiana and other southern states remain more racist than northern and western states.

5) It still infantilizes black people by assuming the above, and that a black candidate can’t win in a majority white district.

6) It forces very different geographic areas with divergent interests into the same voting district by assuming that all blacks everywhere want the same thing. Do rural blacks in the Marksville area support the same policies as urban blacks in the Gus Young area of Baton Rouge?

7) It prioritizes these racist goals over a common sense districting map in which citizens will be more likely to know who their representatives are.

8) It’s actually a giant racist RUSE perpetrated by the Democrat Party to tap the power of the black vote in their favor. The minute black districts start voting Republican, these gerrymandered districts would no longer be a priority. “Bu, bu, but, I thought it was all for the poor oppressed black people??? Whoever they choose! Right?”