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Liberals didn’t repeal the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and started redrawing maps to suppress the black vote.Black voting districts (mostly in the South)are tied to the history of voter suppression and the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They are drawn so Black voters have a fair chance to elect candidates we support. If Black votes are restricted we won’t make up enough voters in any one district to elect representatives we want.
Black voters generally vote for democrats. This is why republicans are attempting to disenfranchise them. In these states, Republican political policy is motivated by racism. If black voters are able to elect someone from within their community, that candidate will usually not align with Republican ideology and policy. This is why these states want to cut up black districts, so they are unable to elect someone who represents their values.
Your version of “someone who represents their values” is just someone with the same skin color. Again, a Democrat will have a Democrat who represents at least some of their values, and so on. The “black values” is created when they are separated. You can’t share values if you are separate, and especially not if we frame people as enemies of each other. Districts should be drawn in blue or red, not black or white.
Yeah, I agree that race is not a monolith, and that’s why modern voting rights enforcement should look at communities of interest A community of interest standard would group your Harlem white boy with his Harlem neighbors, he shares the same school district, public transportation, utility grids, housing costs, and neighborhood history as the Black and Hispanic residents
When someone drawing political districts who values communities of interest draws a district around a neighborhood like Harlem, the goal is to give that specific community of interest a unified political voice. The person wants this community of interest’s needs and views to not be silenced by district borders, regardless of the racial identities in that community.
Those reasons I just listed are part of the contribution to having majority black voting districts. Ontop of years of unfair voting practices and threats made against those going vote. Men have been lynched by the KKK just for going vote. The KKK was a major part in black voting suppression and most of them worked in the government