Governor Landry did an outstanding job on 60 Minutes. People definitely agree with him.

But nobody asks the question, if it's so critical that a BLACK must represent the interests of BLACK people, why aren't the Hispanics screaming the same and demanding set aside districts?

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They will be just give it some time

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I really don't think so. Cubans, for example, have assimilated well into the USA. Hispanics not from Cuba less so, but still, most have done without so much before getting here that they appreciate what they've been able to accomplish. 100 years from now, if a plague, nuclear war or another engineered virus doesn't take us all out, blacks will STILL be demanding more and committing more and more crimes.

From the micro, I agree, from the macro, I don't agree. It's an arms race now. I think this will lead to bluer and redder districts and less cooperation in the legislative body. We are a purple country but the 535 districts will be deep blue and ruby red in 435 of them. I think it is a bad road and will make progress in this country much harder.

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But nobody asks the question, if it's so critical that a BLACK must represent the interests of BLACK people, why aren't the Hispanics screaming the same and demanding set aside districts?

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If blacks can only represent blacks (which is implied in all of this bullshite), then what about the white voters in the "black" districts?

When asked if he cared if Louisiana didn't have a black Representative he should have said,

they can all be black, or all Asian, or all Hispanic as long as the voters have a chance to fairly elect who they think is the best candidate based on the content of their character.

What about the 45% in the Northeast with ZERO representation since forever?

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But nobody asks the question, if it's so critical that a BLACK must represent the interests of BLACK people

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If this is the case we don’t have equality. Any system that perpetuates the special treatment of some… is designed to retain inequality—rather than seek equality. Ironically, that’s “critical race theory” in a nutshell—just the opposite direction.

Honestly, that segment made him look better, wiser, and quicker on his feet than ever before in my opinion. There wasn't one thing he said that I disagree with.

I say this as someone who used to despise him to my core, but could Landry have a future on the national stage? I could see an America that voted for Trump twice (or three times haha) being attracted or at least intrigued by Jeff Landry.

How dumb was the question of “why is it an emergency”


I mean the Supreme Court just declared the districts unconstitutional. I’d say that’s a pretty big deal going into an election.



This isn’t his timeline and while I know he can’t say this but he 100% carved out a place specifically for Fields as payback to Garrett Graves so it’s not something he necessarily pushed for

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60 minutes kept (intentionally) lying when they said this ruling was meant to gerrymander districts. It’s meant to remove gerrymandering. They know this bc they’re dishonest pieces of shite.

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Right! Because gerrymandering got us into this mess. If race is used to draw a district, at all, it's a racist practice. You can look at demographics but any that would be used to solely segregate districts would be discriminatory. Population is the only thing that should be considered and lines drawn from population centers based on the number of districts required. Simple when you take the politics and special interests out of it.