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Democrats are really mad about congressional redistricting in the southern states. Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida have all engaged in the battle over drawing new maps to give Republicans an advantage following the Supreme Court ruling in Callais saying that race-based districting is unconstitutional.
So what are Democrats proposing? A boycott by black students of those southern states, or at least their college athletic programs. The NAACP and the Dems came out urging black students to stay far away from those southern programs.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries weighed in from the Capitol steps, saying, "In the absence of fairness as it relates to black political representation, there should be no athletic participation as it relates to institutions that are housed in states that are experiencing a dramatic return to racially-oppressive Jim Crow-like tactics."
The NAACP's campaign is called "Out of Bounds," and it tells black student athletes "to withhold athletic and financial support from public universities in southern states attacking [b]lack voting rights" until such time as the states those schools are in bow to the Democrats' demands.
These are their demands: adopting a voting rights act at the state level, repealing congressional maps "that dilute [b]lack voting power" and bringing back maps "that reflect the state's [b]lack population and voting strength," committing to "transparent, community-centered redistricting processes," protecting black-majority districts, and ceasing what they call "using state power to weaken [b]lack representation while public institutions profit from [b]lack talent."
The Democratic Party has the idea that black Americans all vote Democrat and that the ones who don't are either "voting against their own interests" or experiencing "internalized white supremacy." What they call "transparency" is really just a manipulation tactic to force states to go against the Supreme Court ruling and create race-based districts. But let's be clear, none of this is about justice or fairness, it's entirely about power.
Dems are desperate to take back power in the House and Senate in this fall's midterms—and they just might do it. But Republicans are fighting back by adjusting voting districts in many states in order to deprioritize the voting power of urban centers. The way many districts are drawn gives disproportionate power to cities, which are mostly Democrat run and Democrat majority. When tendrils from cities spread out into rural areas, those rural voters' votes are outperformed by urban voters.
"What these states have done is not a policy disagreement," said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson. "It is a sprint to erase [b]lack political power. These actions happened in days, in some cases in hours, of a Supreme Court ruling that gives extremist lawmakers a playbook to erode [b]lack representation. The NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on [b]lack athletic prowess to fill their stadiums and their bank accounts remain silent while their states strip [b]lack communities of their voice. Out of Bounds is our answer: we are naming the contradiction, and we are calling on [b]lack athletes, families, fans, and consumers to act on it. The same power that built these programs can be redirected. And it will be."
In other words, the Democrats are returning to their segregationist roots and demanding that black students be separate from white students, attend different schools, and play on different sports teams. Only this time they're doing it under the guise of justice.
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Libby