“Sounds like Cynthia is embarrassed by the likes of Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Lee, John Conyers, etc. etc. Affirmative action always produces inferior results, our current president being Exhibit A.”
The current president being Exhibit B or C. Exhibit A has been the utter destruction of the Black family and with it the underpinnings of Black Civilization.
To be quite honest I wonder if true racist like LBJ were actually trying to accomplish just this with their “Civil rights” acts. If it was not to destroy black civilization it was to put as many blacks as possible back on the Slave plantation. This plantation not run by a private individual or family but by a Big overbearing Nanny Government.
Almost - I thought to myself when I started reading this article, this is Cynthia Tucker? Is it even possible? She was sooooooo close! -
Unfortunately -- like so many measures designed to provide redress for historic wrongs -- those racially gerrymandered districts also come with a significant downside: They discourage moderation. Politicians seeking office in majority-black or -brown districts found that they could indulge in crude racial gamesmanship and left-wing histrionics.
But alas, she takes her new-found revelation and gets it exactly wrong -
What do Republicans get out of the deal? With most black voters pushed into one or two districts, they have rid surrounding districts of voters who might shun a politician who claims allegiance to the Rebel flag or who insists that President Barack Obama is a foreigner. In other words, they make neighboring districts safe for ultraconservative Republicans.
It's like watching a small child trying to learn how to ride a bike and never figuring out how not to fall. When it's your kid it's heartbreaking, when it's somebody else's, it's just plain funny.