Republicans across the country are pulling out all the stops to cheat their way to electoral victories no matter what. African-American voter disenfranchisement in Georgia, Native American voter suppression in North Dakota, and now North Carolina gerrymandering is proof-positive of their ploy.
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The practice of gerrymandering is to manipulate political voting districts in order to control the outcome of elections via the advance control of who votes in what district. Gerrymandering for the purpose of racial discrimination is illegal, however, gerrymandering for the purpose of partisan political control is surprisingly not.
This is exactly what is currently going on today — right now — in a controversial North Carolina gerrymandering case.
The Republican-led state legislature systematically redrew political districts so as to limit the voting power of African-American and other minority (read: Democratic) voters. Their plan is simple: by taking the Black voters from 1 district then spreading them out over several districts, those Black votes suddenly became less significant.
To avoid being charged for illegally redrawing districts for racial purposes, the Republican legislature went on public record and blatantly admitted that they did, in fact, redraw their state’s districts for partisan political gain. However, a simple look at their design plan proves that their “not-so-secret” plot was to water down the Black vote.
A three-judge federal court ruled, only a few months ago, that Rep. David Lewis and his buddies gave North Carolina the largest, most pervasive and continually deployed racial gerrymander ever seen in an American court. The race-based scheme was accompanied, judges also ruled, by an intentional, invidious program to deny blacks the right to vote. – News Observer, North Carolina
For example, the North Carolina Gerrymandering plot split a district right down the middle of a prestigious Black college.
North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, is the largest HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in the country. With the intent of watering down (or completely erasing) the votes of the young, Black students, Republicans redrew the college map then spread the students into multiple districts. The result meant that 2 students could stand a mere 2 feet apart on the college campus and be in separate districts. And this was done on purpose!
Although a court has since ruled that the North Carolina Gerrymandering scheme is illegal and must be redrawn prior to the November midterm election, state Republicans have tied the issue up in court with appeals and are seeking to have the case heard by the US Supreme Court. If the (now conservative-leaning) Supreme Court decides to hear the case, they may not get to it for years — meaning the districts could remain legal for years.
Watch the video below and learn how the North Carolina Gerrymandering plot was LEGALLY done and is actually being planned by Republicans to expand across the US.
THIS IS A MUST WATCH!
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Yes, I had heard about this Repub effort in NC. However, I had NOT known THIS until DJ enlightened me:
“Gerrymandering for the purpose of racial discrimination is illegal, however, gerrymandering for the purpose of partisan political control is surprisingly not.”
There seems to be NO end to the Evil and Hate that guides the heart of some very despicable human-beings. They will NOT stop their evil ways. They are doubling, even tripling, down on their efforts.
And WE must be even more committed to fighting back at every turn.