Posted on 03/30/2018 12:34:37 PM PDT by jazusamo
After the Commerce Department decided to ask if people filling out the census are citizens, the crazed racial Left mobilized and called the change the return of Jim Crow. The change to the Census was a plot against minorities.
To them, Jim Crow keeps returning again and again. His return has more sequels than Rocky.
Jim Crow first came back as Voter ID. Jim Crow returned as keeping voter rolls clean. Then Jim Crow rode into town, again, when Kansas sought to ensure that only citizens are registering to vote.
Jim Crow also appeared when the federal Election Assistance Commission allowed Alabama and Georgia to change a federal voter registration form to ensure that only citizens were registering to vote. Jim Crow is also on the loose in Indiana, because that state compares Indiana voter rolls with other states via the interstate cross check program, to make sure people aren’t registered twice.
Jim Crow is on the loose everywhere, it seems. Anytime honest elections are promoted, Jim Crow appears.
I try not to give the crazed Left public relations advice, but it seems that crying wolf over and over isn’t the best strategy.
When it comes to the outrage about the Trump administration asking for citizenship information in the 2020 Census, the Jim Crow strategy is especially absurd.
Why? Because not having citizenship data on the census most dramatically harms African-Americans.
Let’s borrow the absurd rhetoric of the crazed Left for a moment: the status quo -- not asking for citizenship data in the Census -- is Jim Crow. Jim Crow hurts black political power, and so does a lack of solid citizenship data in the decennial census.
Here's how.
In many urban areas, blacks compete with Hispanics for local office, particularly in Democratic Party primaries. Miami, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago are places where local Democrat party politics have deep African-American and Hispanic constituencies. In November, they are rock-solid Democrat voters to defeat Republicans. But in primaries, they often compete.
More importantly, the two groups also compete in line-drawing exercises, where districts are created for school board, county council, statehouse, and Congress. Racial line-drawing -- an exercise compelled by the Voting Rights Act whether you like it or not -- is reality. Racial line-drawing relies on census data, and each district must have essentially equal population under existing law.
This line drawing counts non-citizen Hispanics to generate Hispanic-majority districts with the minimum total population (citizen and non-citizen combined). But blacks have to ride in the back of the redistricting bus, because they are almost all citizens.
That’s where Trump’s Census change could revolutionize the dynamics of line-drawing in urban communities where blacks and Hispanics have concentrated populations.
Blacks have been losing political power in immigrant-heavy urban cores because non-citizens are not identified by the Census and are counted for redistricting.
And that’s what the critics of Trump’s census change are really terrified of.
Los Angeles provides a particularly stark example. For over a decade, African-American leaders in Los Angeles have been complaining to the Justice Department that blacks have fewer seats on City Council than they should. Instead, the seats are going to Hispanics because the districts are being drawn to benefit Hispanics instead of blacks.
But how could this happen, you ask? The lines are being drawn that way because the Census does not seek accurate citizenship data in the decennial census, and Los Angeles doesn’t use citizenship population to draw districts of equal citizen population.
Blacks in Los Angeles County are nearly all American citizens. The same is not true for the Los Angeles Hispanic population. Yet the exercise in line-drawing of county council seats treats non-citizens and citizens exactly alike.
These trend lines go back decades, and using census data to draw lines that did not take into account citizenship provided a mighty tailwind for Hispanic politicians to march through and unseat black leadership.
The Justice Department Voting Section has routinely received complaints from black civic leaders in Los Angeles that the DOJ should take action to create an additional African-American seat on council. That’s harder to do with the foggy census citizenship data now available. As a result non-citizens are given the same political clout in line-drawing as citizens are given.
The Trump administration’s decision to ask for citizenship data can help stop a subtle but effective form of vote dilution in African-American communities. Savvy administration officials might consider defending the 2020 Census on these terms.
Los Angeles isn’t the only city where black citizens are losing political clout because of waves on non-citizen immigration -- waves that would be automatically counted for allocating political seats after 2020 if the Trump administration did not act to create a more accurate census.
Redistricting games are always played on the margins. A line moved a few blocks, a concentrated cluster of one race tossed overboard into a district with a majority of the other race, or a single percentage point buoyed by non-citizens can make all the difference between victory and defeat. The Justice Department didn’t help decades ago when it sued to create more Hispanic districts in Los Angeles -- no doubt relying on foggy citizenship data because the citizenship question didn’t exist in the decennial census.
No matter how you slice it, failing to account for non-citizens in drawing district lines hastened the withering away of black political power in Los Angeles.
While it is true that “waves” of Latino immigrants changed the political structure of the city, it happened sooner and a faster pace than it would have if only citizens were counted for redistricting.
When the Census failed to seek citizenship data, the resulting redistricting always provided non-citizen-heavy places a political subsidy. The earliest and most obvious victims are usually blacks in urban areas.
Had the GOP dreamed up a scheme to dilute black political power by terminating a hypothetical Census citizenship question, we would have heard endlessly about Jim Crow. For a change, the Jim Crow charge would have been accurate.
Of course. The entire crackdown on illegal aliens will help Blacks, as well as all citizens, but especially Blacks. Yet they still hate him & demonize him.
It is one thing to believe and stand for leftist ideals from a place of intelligent reasoning and/or experience. But that is NOT usually the state of black leftists in this country. As we all know here at FR. And when it is it is usually financial and for power such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton that wouldn't have either if it weren't for their race bating lying carnival act. But I again. I am just speaking to the masses here that already know this here. Sad though. And TRULY evil. Hope more black Americans are waking up from the leftist cult brainwashing.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made every subsequent Term of ten Years
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Note also that the US Constitution does not prohibit States from registering non-citizens to vote. If one believes in literal interpretation of the Constitution then it is up to each state as to whether non-citizens are allowed to vote. We aren't there .... yet. But please don't do to the Constitution what the left does... find hidden penumbra to advance their agenda.
18 U.S. Code § 611 - Voting by aliens
(a) It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless—
(1) the election is held partly for some other purpose;
(2) aliens are authorized to vote for such other purpose under a State constitution or statute or a local ordinance; and
(3) voting for such other purpose is conducted independently of voting for a candidate for such Federal offices, in such a manner that an alien has the opportunity to vote for such other purpose, but not an opportunity to vote for a candidate for any one or more of such Federal offices.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/611
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excerpt:
Supreme Court Leaves Door Open to States Not Counting Aliens when Drawing Electoral Districts
By Jon Feere on April 6, 2016
In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court held in Evenwel v. Abbott that Texas’s current methodology for drawing electoral districts based on total population is constitutionally sound. The Court did not rule on the question of whether states are required to include illegal aliens or other non-citizens when drawing districts. In fact, the Court noted that some states “have relied on the registered-voter or voter-eligible populations” for drawing districts and that 10 states already exclude some non-permanent residents.
Black citizens should come before ANY and ALL illegals!
I'm willing to pay a little more for oranges if they're picked by citizens earning more than the $10 a day the wetbacks are currently paid.
I don’t know but I just found out the citizenship questions were on the 2010 long census form and now they’ll be on the long and short census forms.
There you are. Blacks should be cheering.
That is the meat of the matter.
Every Black AMERICAN'S vote is being stolen by an ILLEGAL alien.
I have no idea why they wouldn't be outraged by that.
It isn't "white supremacists" disenfranchising them.
If black Americans aren't careful, they'll end up being REALLY disenfranchised, as democrat politicians will simply ignore them, and pander to illegals.
Do black people really think that someone like Luis Gutierrez really *cares* about them?
He could give a crap about black citizens.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he has said some pretty racist things about blacks in private.
Blacks may be happy with this, but many of them still want their freebies.
“.......but many of them still want their freebies.”
Those bugs better get their minds right..... because that is going to end.
Only a couple years have been skipped.
Controlling the census is huge, Obama and Clinton got the last two.
For instance, in the 2000 long form, the question was “Is this person a CITIZEN of the United States?” There were five choices. The first four categories were citizens: born in the U.S., born in a territory of the U.S., born abroad to American parents or naturalized. The fifth choice was “No, not a citizen of the United States.”
However, in 2010, there was no long form (it had been replaced by the ongoing American Community Survey, which is sent to approximately 3.5 million addresses a year) and thus no citizenship question in the official census. The Trump administration now plans to bring it back. While the question’s been around a long time, it would be returning to the short form for the first time since 1950.
“Black citizens should come before ANY and ALL illegals!”
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They should indeed. Unfortunately, many blacks don’t recognize that the ‘RATS actually place the interests of illegals ahead of all citizens, including blacks.
The Dems seemed to have controlled it more often than not since 1980. 1990 has been the one and only time until 2020 has a GOP administration presided over a census.
I have researched my family history and most, if not all of the censuses up until 1940 had a citizenship question on them
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