Republican's Vile Plan To Remove Political Power From People Of Color In Texas

Why the 'Contract with Texas' Threatens Fair Representation for All.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/republicans-vile-plan-to-remove-political



In the 2011 court case Abbott v. Perez, then-Attorney General Greg Abbott said, “A jurisdiction may engage in constitutional political gerrymandering, even if it so happens that the most loyal Democrats happen to be black Democrats and even if the State were conscious of that fact.” (Full document.)

The case was about the racial gerrymandering in the 2011 legislative session. What Greg Abbott argued was that Republicans were aware that they were disenfranchising Black people. Still, it was okay because they intended to disenfranchise Democrats, and it isn’t their fault that the majority of Black people happen to be Democrats.

Republicans’ position in Texas has been for a long time, “We know we are harming people of color in Texas, but it is our intention to hurt Democrats.”

In 2021, I watched three days of testimony in the Texas Senate regarding the redistricting maps (and compressed it into one 30-minute video). It was astounding. Hundreds of Texans went to the capitol, each testifying that the new redistricting maps were racist and disenfranchised communities of color. While the bill’s author, Senator Joan Huffman, said repeatedly, “The maps were drawn blind to race.”