midgett said:
Porteroso said:
Osodecentx said:
Porteroso said:
They deserve to gerrymander all they want, but they have to follow the rules. I am shocked that voters are going along with this. Tribalism is ruining this country. People dont care that their neighbor might be unfairly represented, they just care about winning. A total cancer.
The House member from that Memphis district has been a white male for the last decade
Cohen has been there for 30 years at least. And should black Memphians not get to vote for a white guy, if they want? And are you saying that putting the whole city of Memphis into a district would be mapping based upon race?
I'd make the argument that splitting up Memphis is closer to mapping to dilute the black vote than having Memphis in a single district.
If splitting up a majority black district to get 3 majority white districts is not racial mapping, what would be, in your opinion?
The white male Democrat who has long represented the majority black district ran against a black female Republican. Dems spent millions defeating the black woman. You know, racist gerrymandering.
You are conflating 2 issues. One is diluting the vote of a majority black city, by splitting it into 3 districts and adding majority white rural populations to each.
The second issue is whether Memphians should be able to vote for whoever they want, black or white.
But saying that it cannot be racist if one of the 3 districts will get a black woman as a representative, is fallacious because it assumes that a black person representing the district is less racist than a white guy. The truth is obviously the opposite. It was never racist for a majority black population to vote for a white guy. This is about power for the Republican supermajority.
And by the way, the challenger to Cohen was not going to be a black Republican, but a black Democrat, Pearson.
Osodecentx said:
Porteroso said:
Osodecentx said:
Porteroso said:
They deserve to gerrymander all they want, but they have to follow the rules. I am shocked that voters are going along with this. Tribalism is ruining this country. People dont care that their neighbor might be unfairly represented, they just care about winning. A total cancer.
The House member from that Memphis district has been a white male for the last decade
Cohen has been there for 30 years at least. And should black Memphians not get to vote for a white guy, if they want? And are you saying that putting the whole city of Memphis into a district would be mapping based upon race?
I'd make the argument that splitting up Memphis is closer to mapping to dilute the black vote than having Memphis in a single district.
If splitting up a majority black district to get 3 majority white districts is not racial mapping, what would be, in your opinion?
Steve Cohen is a Democratic U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 9th Congressional District, centered in Memphis, serving since 2007.
He represented Memphis in other capacities before that. He has been voted in by a black population for 30 years or longer.
