A Black prosecutor was elected in Georgia – so white Republicans made their own district
A Black prosecutor was elected in Georgia – so white Republicans made their own district
After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit
After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit
I'm tired of learning that people are still being racist fucks and nobody is doing anything about it in 2023
I really hope this kind of shit is pissing people off as much as it does us. It sure riles me the fuck up, and at a minimum serves as a reminder to keep voting.
The south didn't change much since the civil war and are proud of that as 'their heritage'.
The younger generations there are better, but the south really got the very worst of boomerism.
"Waaah, our gerrymander failed! This is so unfair, it was supposed to be used to suppress black voters! Not white voters! We want all our white people back, since they failed to properly police the black people like we had hoped!"
This is the shit that I think about when I hear people say “slavery and Jim Crow were a long time ago”. The selective blindness of people is just astounding
Mississippi is absolutely the apartheid model you can expect Republicans to look to for guidance on expanding apartheid to every corner they control
Yet another item to add to my ever growing list of reasons NOT to visit Murica.
Trump was projecting when he referred to countries as Shit Holes.
Believe it or not, you're the one being racist now - by painting all of the US and all Americans with the same brush.
You don't hear about all the people that are perfectly fine folks and all the places that aren't insane because that makes boring news. So the only news you hear about are the whackjobs and bottom-feeders like this.
Don't make the same mistake of judging an entire country by a partial set of facts because that puts your feet on the first steps of the same path the people in this article walked.
This would be nationalist if anything, or generalized prejudice, as "American" isn't a race. Though, to be fair, all racism is a misnomer, as our race is human, but still.
Americans aren't a race you blithering idiot.
But that's what you get from an American education I guess.
Americans are obviously not a race.
The GOP continues to be racist. Not that shocking.
As a Canadian, the more I read these kind of news about the USA, the sadder I become about the country and feel that these social issues will never be fixed
Yeah, the only way the south ends up changing is if a genocide happens, which I’m not advocating, but it really is like that with them and their “culture.”
…more than half of all Black folks in the US live in the south. Georgia alone has over two million Black folks living there (hi, I’m from Georgia and I’m Black!) I’m Southern. My whole family is Southern. I’m the first generation who didn’t grow up on a farm. This isn’t my damn culture. Don’t erase us in your zeal to smugly dismiss the South, when there is not a single damn state in America that didn’t have a sundown town.
For conservatives the law exists to protect them but not restrain them while it restrains <everyone else> but not protect them. Can’t have the law in the wrong hands.
Is it bad to get rid of the electoral and just let the votes count and not include the gerrymandering?
Probably, yes. The idea is that people should have adequate representation. If 45% of your area if X, and 55% is Y, and it's a direct election, then you end up with all elected officials being Y, and X has no representation at all. The ideal districts would result in 45% of all elected representatives being X.
The electoral college is based on population, but indirectly. The way you could get around it is if states awarded electoral votes proportionately to the votes a candidate received, rather than winner-takes-all. But states have to choose to do that themselves; the fed. gov't can't mandate it. Some states are already doing that.
Kinda fucked that prosecutors are elected at all