Texas state-sponsored racism on full display

[Spamature]

It is bad enough that they cheat, but to add in a racist twist like this is DEPLORABLE !
Minorities made up 95% of Texas population gains. Yet now they have less power in deciding the outcome of elections through voting.


New Texas Republican map carves Jackson Lee district and cuts off Black constituents
By Colby Itkowitz
Yesterday at 8:00 p.m. EDT



A new Texas congressional map shreds the Houston-based legislative district of Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, siphoning off thousands of her Black constituents and potentially forcing her into a primary against her neighboring Black incumbent, Rep. Al Green (D).

Critics of the new plan say it’s a racial gerrymander intended to weaken Black voices in Congress, even as it protects other incumbents.
Jackson Lee, 71, is the second-longest-serving member in the Texas delegation, having represented the state’s 18th District for nearly three decades. Since it was won by Barbara Jordan in 1972, the first Black woman to represent the state, the boundaries have largely remained the same.
But now, Texas Republicans in charge of redistricting have advanced a map that would remove downtown Houston, with Jackson Lee’s main district office, two universities and the predominantly Black Third Ward neighborhood, long considered the center of Black life in Houston, from the 18th District.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/redistricting-texas-african-american-democrats/2021/10/14/0d0d06d6-2cfd-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html

 

[georgephillip]

In 1844 Friedrich Engels wrote: "Everything changes and yet everything stays the same."

Engels was referring to the conditions of the working class in England living at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, but there are compelling similarities with the victims of white supremacy in the US today.

In 1870 the Fifteenth Amendment gave southern blacks the right to vote, and almost immediately, their white neighbors began doing everything to suppress it:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-15-2021

"By the early 1960s, fewer than 5% of eligible Black voters were registered in Mississippi, and when organizers tried to help them enforce their right to vote, white gangs and government officials harassed them, occasionally to the point of murder.

"Appalled at the violence playing out on the streets and then again on the evening news, lawmakers in 1965 passed the Voting Rights Act. It required that states with a history of discrimination get preapproval from the Department of Justice to change state election laws.

"The measure passed on a bipartisan basis

"But the impulse to expand voting rights in America would face a backlash in 1986, when Reagan Republicans realized they were in danger of losing control of the government and thus losing the 1986 tax cuts..."

 

[JuliefromOhio]

It's all about the GOP's white identity politics.

 

[Spamature]

It's all about the GOP's white identity politics.

It's creeping Fascism.

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism

 

[Spamature]

In 1844 Friedrich Engels wrote: "Everything changes and yet everything stays the same."

Engels was referring to the conditions of the working class in England living at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, but there are compelling similarities with the victims of white supremacy in the US today.

In 1870 the Fifteenth Amendment gave southern blacks the right to vote, and almost immediately, their white neighbors began doing everything to suppress it:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-15-2021

"By the early 1960s, fewer than 5% of eligible Black voters were registered in Mississippi, and when organizers tried to help them enforce their right to vote, white gangs and government officials harassed them, occasionally to the point of murder.

"Appalled at the violence playing out on the streets and then again on the evening news, lawmakers in 1965 passed the Voting Rights Act. It required that states with a history of discrimination get preapproval from the Department of Justice to change state election laws.

"The measure passed on a bipartisan basis

"But the impulse to expand voting rights in America would face a backlash in 1986, when Reagan Republicans realized they were in danger of losing control of the government and thus losing the 1986 tax cuts..."

Oddly enough, in the future, Texas probably won't allow this part of their state's current racial history to be taught in schools.

 

[georgephillip]

Oddly enough, in the future, Texas probably won't allow this part of their state's current racial history to be taught in schools.

I'm unsure how Texas demographics will change over the next few decades, but for 2022 and 2024 it appears white supremacy won't take a serious hit?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/15/roaming-charges-30/

In the new Texas House districts passed this week by the state legislature map whites, who make up 40% state’s population , will control 59% districts; Hispanics, who make up 39% of the population, will control 20% districts; and Blacks, who make of up 12% of Texas’ population, will control only 2.7% of the districts.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

It's creeping Fascism.

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism


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I don't disagree. Today's GOP is on a course to fascism, authoritarianism. I just think the white identity politics is the emotional fuel for their base who have no regard for or understanding of democracy, the rule of law.

 

[Spamature]

I don't disagree. Today's GOP is on a course to fascism, authoritarianism. I just think the white identity politics is the emotional fuel for their base who have no regard for or understanding of democracy, the rule of law.

It's the slop they feed their base to keep them in the pin, no doubt about it.
It's basically a permission reach around.

Each outrage is politicians is permission for the base to go further.
Each political act encourages the base to go further with their outrages.

It is by far the most reckless thing I have ever seen in our politics.

 

[georgephillip]

don't disagree. Today's GOP is on a course to fascism, authoritarianism. I just think the white identity politics is the emotional fuel for their base who have no regard for or understanding of democracy, the rule of law

This is one prominent US neoconservative's prediction for the next three years:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/15/americas-instinctive-fascism-creeps-on/

‘The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves…

"We are already in a constitutional crisis.

"The destruction of democracy might not come until November 2024, but critical steps in that direction are happening now.

"In a little more than a year, it may become impossible to pass legislation to protect the electoral process in 2024.

"Now it is impossible only because anti-Trump Republicans, and even some Democrats, refuse to tinker with the filibuster.

"It is impossible because, despite all that has happened, some people still wish to be good Republicans even as they oppose Trump.

"These decisions will not wear well as the nation tumbles into full-blown crisis.’”

 

[trapdoor]

Well, you can condemn the GOP for this, but the truth is gerrymandering like this takes place in the Democratic Party, too. In fact, the SCOTUS ruled against a Democratic District, in Texas, because it went too far out of its way to create a minority-majority district. That was back in the mid-1990s (the case is Bush v. Vera).

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

It is bad enough that they cheat, but to add in a racist twist like this is DEPLORABLE !
Minorities made up 95% of Texas population gains. Yet now they have less power in deciding the outcome of elections through voting.


New Texas Republican map carves Jackson Lee district and cuts off Black constituents
By Colby Itkowitz
Yesterday at 8:00 p.m. EDT



A new Texas congressional map shreds the Houston-based legislative district of Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, siphoning off thousands of her Black constituents and potentially forcing her into a primary against her neighboring Black incumbent, Rep. Al Green (D).

Critics of the new plan say it’s a racial gerrymander intended to weaken Black voices in Congress, even as it protects other incumbents.
Jackson Lee, 71, is the second-longest-serving member in the Texas delegation, having represented the state’s 18th District for nearly three decades. Since it was won by Barbara Jordan in 1972, the first Black woman to represent the state, the boundaries have largely remained the same.
But now, Texas Republicans in charge of redistricting have advanced a map that would remove downtown Houston, with Jackson Lee’s main district office, two universities and the predominantly Black Third Ward neighborhood, long considered the center of Black life in Houston, from the 18th District.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/redistricting-texas-african-american-democrats/2021/10/14/0d0d06d6-2cfd-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html

The Texas GOP is pulling every stunt in the book to weaken minority voting rights. They are emboldened by a series of cases by the illegally stacked SCOTUS. The SCOTUS wingers have weakened minority voting rights at every turn. And other states are following their path.

So deplorable.

 

[sensible don]

I'm unsure how Texas demographics will change over the next few decades, but for 2022 and 2024 it appears white supremacy won't take a serious hit?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/15/roaming-charges-30/

In the new Texas House districts passed this week by the state legislature map whites, who make up 40% state’s population , will control 59% districts; Hispanics, who make up 39% of the population, will control 20% districts; and Blacks, who make of up 12% of Texas’ population, will control only 2.7% of the districts.

and racist right wingers will clap until their hands bleed at this news, they don't even bother to hide in the shadows anymore, deplorable scum in my book

 

[Spamature]

The Texas GOP is pulling every stunt in the book to weaken minority voting rights. They are emboldened by a series of cases by the illegally stacked SCOTUS. The SCOTUS wingers have weakened minority voting rights at every turn. And other states are following their path.

So deplorable.

Racism plays a major role when setting up rule by fascism.

It's at the root of, "When they came for ... I did nothing, because I was not ..."

 

[Spamature]

Well, you can condemn the GOP for this, but the truth is gerrymandering like this takes place in the Democratic Party, too. In fact, the SCOTUS ruled against a Democratic District, in Texas, because it went too far out of its way to create a minority-majority district. That was back in the mid-1990s (the case is Bush v. Vera).

So they have no excuse because they already know from past experience that what they are doing is unconstitutional.

Yet prior knowledge of its illegality and still no hesitation at all in going forward with it.

 

[PNWest]

Well, you can condemn the GOP for this, but the truth is gerrymandering like this takes place in the Democratic Party, too. In fact, the SCOTUS ruled against a Democratic District, in Texas, because it went too far out of its way to create a minority-majority district. That was back in the mid-1990s (the case is Bush v. Vera).

but..... but..... but..... the democrats did something bad too.

Did that work when you were 5 years old?

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[Drumcollie]

It is bad enough that they cheat, but to add in a racist twist like this is DEPLORABLE !
Minorities made up 95% of Texas population gains. Yet now they have less power in deciding the outcome of elections through voting.


New Texas Republican map carves Jackson Lee district and cuts off Black constituents
By Colby Itkowitz
Yesterday at 8:00 p.m. EDT



A new Texas congressional map shreds the Houston-based legislative district of Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, siphoning off thousands of her Black constituents and potentially forcing her into a primary against her neighboring Black incumbent, Rep. Al Green (D).

Critics of the new plan say it’s a racial gerrymander intended to weaken Black voices in Congress, even as it protects other incumbents.
Jackson Lee, 71, is the second-longest-serving member in the Texas delegation, having represented the state’s 18th District for nearly three decades. Since it was won by Barbara Jordan in 1972, the first Black woman to represent the state, the boundaries have largely remained the same.
But now, Texas Republicans in charge of redistricting have advanced a map that would remove downtown Houston, with Jackson Lee’s main district office, two universities and the predominantly Black Third Ward neighborhood, long considered the center of Black life in Houston, from the 18th District.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/redistricting-texas-african-american-democrats/2021/10/14/0d0d06d6-2cfd-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html

Texas's 18th congressional district since January 3, 2013
Representative	Sheila Jackson Lee D–Houston
Distribution	99.94% urban[1] 0.06% rural
Population (2019)	827,015[2]
Median household income	$48,625[3]
Ethnicity	41.78% Hispanic 36.35% Black 17.83% White 3.94% Asian 0.1% Na

Texas's 18th congressional district - Wikipedia

This Ms. Triple Crown Weave's district, same as it was since 2013. If you notice the areas in green are the mostly black neighborhoods.

The current map by the state of the U.S. Congress district is the same district
m1.pdf (texas.gov)

Given that U.S. districts are to represent 711,000 people and this district probably should be redistricted. In a high population area at 235 square miles. It skips over the majority white areas and illegal whites area.

 

[Drumcollie]

but..... but..... but..... the democrats did something bad too.

Did that work when you were 5 years old?

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but..... but...... but..... Pelosi...
but..... but...... but..... Hillary...
but..... but...... but..... Obama...
but..... but...... but..... Biden...
but..... but...... but..... Northram...
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but..... but...... but..... China
but..... but...... but..... BLM...
but..... but...... but..... Behngazi...
but..... but...... but..... Anthony Weiner...
but..... but...... but..... Mexicans...
but..... but...... but..... Black People...
but..... but...... but..... Muslims...
but..... but...... but..... The Democrats...
but..... but...... but..... Ted Kennedy...
but..... but...... but..... Robert Byrd(pre 1948)...
but..... but...... but..... Democrats after the Civil War...
but..... but...... but..... Lame Stream Media...

Joe* welcome to the P.J. That typing looks like more work that you have done since You have become the "White House" resident.

It does however look like you could use help with your sentence structure so that people reading can understand what your message was meant to convey. You capitalize at the beginning of each sentence...And after each ellipsis because you are beginning a new sentence.

The topic of the subject is redistricting. Do you have an actual comment on the subject or are you just suffering from dementia?

 

[georgephillip]

and racist right wingers will clap until their hands bleed at this news, they don't even bother to hide in the shadows anymore, deplorable scum in my book

I agree, yet I wonder if Americans would recognize the threat posed to US democracy today without Trump's blatant, ignorant appeals? There is a long history of Americans feeling sympathetic to anti-democratic leaders:

https://www.wkms.org/government-politics/2020-10-12/the-history-of-democracy-fascist-movements-in-u-s-history

"In the U.S., we had our own people that I would argue had very clear fascist tendencies.

"Certainly, Henry Ford; he was very anti-semitic.

"He believed in paying his workers well, this idea of Fordism, but his politics were fairly terrifying.

"Charles Lindbergh had very similar opinions. Very much pro-German, as was Ford.

"When the Nazis took power, Ford was sending Hitler birthday checks into the late 30s, when I assume his board of directors told him 'please stop sending Hitler Happy Birthday cards with money in them.'"

 

[trapdoor]

but..... but..... but..... the democrats did something bad too.

Did that work when you were 5 years old?

Instant Republican rebuttal tool (highlight appropriate whataboutism)

but..... but...... but..... Pelosi...
but..... but...... but..... Hillary...
but..... but...... but..... Obama...
but..... but...... but..... Biden...
but..... but...... but..... Northram...
but..... but...... but..... Democratic Governors...
but..... but...... but..... China
but..... but...... but..... BLM...
but..... but...... but..... Behngazi...
but..... but...... but..... Anthony Weiner...
but..... but...... but..... Mexicans...
but..... but...... but..... Black People...
but..... but...... but..... Muslims...
but..... but...... but..... The Democrats...
but..... but...... but..... Ted Kennedy...
but..... but...... but..... Robert Byrd(pre 1948)...
but..... but...... but..... Democrats after the Civil War...
but..... but...... but..... Lame Stream Media...

Sauce for the goose.

 

[trapdoor]

So they have no excuse because they already know from past experience that what they are doing is unconstitutional.

Yet prior knowledge of its illegality and still no hesitation at all in going forward with it.

Gerrymandering itself is not necessarily constitutional. It's been practiced by every political part with the power to do it since Edmund Gerry's name was attached to it more than 200 years ago.