Tennessee’s Redistricting is RACIST | NLP Replay

that Elliotts are describing, are those that were protesting. Let us please roll this clip of State Senator London Lamar protesting against the Republican redistricting efforts in Tennessee just on Tuesday.

I need you to know this will be one of the most racist actions taken in the history of modern history of this legislature that you are participating in this week. Intentionally breaking state law to take my community's vote is downright disgusting and offensive. My grandmother, who's sinning watching of meet right now, still alive to this day, live with a moment where she could not vote, and I remember the smile on her face when her grand baby got elected in made history. And I know some of you

sending in this body Ashley, don't agree with this. I know you don't, but this is an opportunity for you to have some courage, show some courage. Y'all know this is wrong. You know it.

we weren't going over bodies of water and splitting you know, streets, and trying to do that to the best of our ability, and getting that in South Carolina it was like thirty three thy seven hundred and one. That was like the number you were looking for. And then I had to testify in district court and then testify and then it went all the way up to the Supreme Court, and they wrote about it and all of these things. So I was able to see it from a really interesting perspective.

And all of these maps stick out for one thing, they're patently legally absurd. The map that they're talking about doing in Tennessee. Take someone from downtown Memphis to be represented by the same person who represents a city two hundred miles away, Like it's patently absurd. When you look at the potential maps in South Carolina, they go from the top of the state of South Carolina, the border of Georgia and North Carolina all the way down to Buford,

Like they cover hours of ground. Because what people don't understand is that black people ain't going nowhere. It's not like we're moving with the district, like the black centers in Memphis are going to be the black centers in Memphis. And so to do this, I think you're gonna have a hard time still passing the muster, even set forth by this bullshit Supreme Court.

still have Section two after they destroyed Section five. But then their justification here is so long as you can come up with a reasonable argument that you are removing or splitting, slicing and dicing this not because these people are black, but because you're trying to create a Republican majority, which they have created as constitutional Jerry mandering for the

purpose of political advantage. And so since in the South, and I think probably all over the country, but definitely in the South, the correlation between race and political party, they're almost one and the same. Black people are Democrats, white people are Republicans. And so if you're drawing a district for political advantage, you can slice, dice, split black folks up into many subgroups, say we never recognize the power of our whole so that you can accomplish the

goal of creating a Republican seat. And the member in Tennessee was simply saying, let's call this thing what it is. While the Constitution may have been plastered over by this current Republican majority in the United S of Supreme Court, giving you the s roud of dignity that you're building this for political advantage, we know you're building this to

destroy black representative voice. But Cary, I thought that part of our conversation was about the fact that there are now black people in great areas in southwest Atlanta and you know, Tallahassee and the North Side and all these other places where they have argued with themselves to say, well, we can still elect a black person because we've done it in this case, and in this case, and in this case, and Ellie, I think did better than I could. I was attempting to make sure I guarded myself while

I made the comment. But it's not that you're getting a poorer quality of black elected I'm not suggesting that. I am saying. However, all elected officials are not created equal, and different ones of us can do different things and show up in different ways for our community and be as effective as you can possibly imagine. But when it comes to the will, the realm of your authority that requires the public will, people have to give you your authority. They can limit it or they can expand it based

on how they feel. And if you don't hear your voice being spoken the way you speak it, the way you do it, saying a thing that needs to be said the way it needs to be done, you risk losing out on a whole constituency of people who never rally on that issue because they never heard you talking about them. You may have been, but you were referring to boundaries and districts, and this person was talking about

the grocery store and food on my table. So what we are being raped of, we're being just completely script of it's our ability to even in Tennessee, where they chose a white man to be their voice, the choice was still theirs as a community that could be made as a community because y'all had the we were and we weren't a single We were us and not one individual.

And so now they have decided that we're so well healed we can win white votes and so we no longer need the concentrated fist to bring down its power whenever it needed to bring it down because the leader said so. And we're in compromise place, y'all, And I couldn't be more despaired by it, because I don't know what the road map looks like to overcome it. Yes, go vote, yes, organize.

her office has been rated. This was proposed by Donald Trump's foe district attorney in Virginia that didn't have the credentials, that kept going after people like Tiss James, and who else did she go after in Virginia? I missing somebody Tis James and one other person. They had to throw the oh it's James, comey. They had to throw the cases out because she wasn't air tight on her way out.

She suggests that it would be good for Donald Trump in midterms, energizing their base for the midterms by going after a powerhouse like Senator Lucas, who is the one of the people who championed Virginia's redistricting process to make the maps fair again, to make the electoral process fair again, by discounting what Donald Trump and his minions are doing in other Southern states. So they go after Louise Lucas today.

of what weaponization really looks like. Because the only news station that was there during the FBI raid, which, by the way, Elie, tell me if I'm wrong, but don't they usually happen right before Don or right around Don, but having it having it around lunchtime is just weird. But anyway, the only people who were there to record this was Fox News. I'm sorry, and everything else I want to say, I want to kudos, everything else, Angela.

Y'all are all the same. If you if if you wanted accountability on a runaway government, you have an easy way to do that. But but, but but this is the this is the beauty of understanding them, I think, is to see that they are in common cause despite the areas of disagreement that surface. The war may be an area of disagreements, and inconvenience, the price of gas might be an inconvenience right now, maybe a big one for some people if you are strained at every corner

of your wallet. But where we still come home is that The New York Times is being sued by Trump's Equal Opportunity Office because a white man was denied a job, and a person who was non white got the job they were applying for. It is because her meat is going around advertising on online markers on the internet to white men to come and bring your case to me. Donald Trump's a hired hand to go after those people who have been taking from you, white men, what you

so richly deserve. So the common cause the through for me is that I don't care how mad they get with Donald Trump. I don't care how many sound bites they offer of disagreement about his thing he did today, yesterday, or the day before, because they are still making common cause and they are still at peace with him when he is taking us out the picture, swiping us completely out the frame. So I don't have high hopes. I guess for me, if I had to go action, which

is what we'll get to next. And I know we got another topic but we're gonna have to talk about after the show. But my ass would be to really come to terms people that we are not gonna be saved by anybody else. There is no gallivanting a group of Republican white folks that are going to surface this November and get us free. I don't believe it. I don't care what the polls show. I think they would may be mad today, but they gonna make common cause

with the strand that runs beneath all of them. And so when you talk, we just have to do our part.

There is nothing you can do if you don't change the Supreme Court, because the Supreme Court will always exist as the stop, as the retardation on progress. That is their function. They understand their function. They understand that they are there four whites, including the black one. They understand that they're there for whites. And until you change the math on the Supreme Court, you change nothing. Can so I always can I do my call to action phone? No? No?

depending on what Clarence Thomas thinks I made. I made the argument that literally Thomas was not as down to get rid of birthright citizenship as I expected him to. I still think he'll I still think it's gonna be seven to two with Alito and Thomas dissenting. But I could even make a case for eight to one. But like Barrett just wasn't going for it. Neil Gorsich, I didn't think was going for it. I think he'll lose

that one. Yeah, So you know, I'll come back here when we don't, when they win and e Crow.