by Jack Lee
(Written tongue in cheek)
In the beginning of our great nation our founding fathers recognized the intellectual and cultural differences between the various races and the need to keep them widely separated. And so it was, that they came to have voting districts drawn for white people, to assure that only a white person would represent a white person and this is why today, in Asian, Hispanic and Black neighborhoods their voting districts are designed for “their people” to represent them – this is the American way and so our founders knew…huh? What’s that you say, this isn’t true, not even remotely true?
But, but, but…uh, it must be true! That’s the way we do it in California and we’re the most enlightened progressive state in the Union. Ask the democrats, they control everything. Our most recent, sort of semi-independent committee, for redrawing voting districts, tells us this is how they’re doing it – race based voting districts or other foolish distinctions that should never be considered, and the laws on this subject say so too!
2/3rds of the committee (all liberals) have openly stated (with great pride, I might add) that voting districts, should be carefully redrawn and engineered so “those people”, and that would be “those people”. . . defined and labeled as minorities, would be able to elect their own kind. So, be glad you live in California, where your progressive team understands what makes America strong. (Gag!)
This labeling is all part of the liberal plan that embraces this new affirmative action view of multiculturalism. According to these idiots, this is exactly what our founding fathers would have wanted them to do! In short, one must conclude that race mixing is bad – race separation is good. Of course those aren’t their words, those are mine. I am merely mocking them because of their idiocy. They would be horrified to be called racists, even though what they’re doing to is a form of racism. So they have deluded themselves to make it seem okay, because they’re just trying to help minorities.
If you ever corner them on this race helping subject, they will try to explain why it’s so critically important to have a Hispanic or Black Caucus in the same sugar coated terms as racial districts. They would say, oh, it’s NOT racism at all – it’s helping the minorities rise up and control their own destiny! Sure, it sounds good at first blush, but division is still division. WE don’t need division – we’re divided enough! It’s better not to recognize race at all and just think of each other as Americans.
They are being
foolish because the net effect is they are catering to one race at the cost of discriminating against another race.
This sort of silly thinking makes for a house divided. They are saying ONLY a black person would be able to understand and willing to take on issues of a black community or an Asian for an Asian community or a Hispanic for a Hispanic community. What a crock! America was never intended to be a nation of sub-cultures pitted against each other, isolated in their own little bastions and out of touch with their neighbors.
As the saying goes, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions; and that’s where these liberals with their good intentions are dragging us. Whatever happened to the notion of being color blind and judging a person by the content of their character? How do we rise to that noble thinking when we engage is discrimination? Call it reverse discrimination if you must, but its still discrimination.
If you have doubts about the validity of what has been said here, then I really want you to ask the redistricting committee how they arrived at these strange looking districts in L.A. and elsewhere. They have a website – read it! They have made no secret out of this, it’s all out here, but you need to look.
Special thanks to a certain State Senator who brought this to my attention last Saturday. This was one issue that deserved to have a lot of light shed on it and maybe we can fix it before it becomes law. Race based voting districts set back civil rights a 100 years.
And now this, as taken from the committee’s own website, “Because of protections afforded by the Voting Rights Act, minority communities throughout the country have been better able to elect representatives of their choice who can more effectively advocate for their interests.
The Voting Rights Act prohibits drawing district lines that discriminate on the basis of “race, color, or membership in a protected language minority group.” In other words, district lines can’t be drawn to diminish a minority community’s ability to elect a candidate of its choice, (but they are saying to us they can be redrawn to promote minorities) thereby protecting minority opportunity districts. However, the US Supreme Court’s 2009 Bartlett v. Strickland decision ruled that a minority group must be more than 50% of its citizens voting age population for a district (or potential district) to now qualify for protection under the VRA.
This is where the concept of “communities of interest” (or COI’s) can come into play. COIs are broadly defined as a group of people in a specific geographic area who share similar interests and priorities. Historically, federal courts have given consideration to COI’s when reviewing redistricting plans and California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission has lifted up COI’s a key criteria in their map drawing.”
This means that districts can be redrawn to reflect religion, race, color, or membership in a protected language minority groupethnic.
THIS IS WRONG – districts should only reflect the balance the competing political parties and nothing else. Otherwise you have social engineering, fractionalized communities, where people are defined and pitted against each other by race, religion, color, or membership in a protected language minority groups!!!!
www.redrawca.org/#howitworks
So, the picture of Hitler is meant to imply that the Democrats are acting like Nazis?
Y’mean, like when Hitler set the voting lines to make sure certain districts were Jewish? Because he was all about having minorities be represented?
Why on Earth should districts reflect ONLY political parties? What about the MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE who belong to neither party???? What about those who don’t give a damn about your artificially created divisions? What about those who just consider themselves AMERICANS???? Those who put country first, instead of party?
Quentin, you are making your point by leaving out one important factor… balance of power. Maybe you and I would like to see political parties dissolved and just have everyone vote for the guy we like. That’s great, but that’s not how it is, is it? No, we’re a two party country – deal with it. And you know I’m right. If you had made this discovery for race based districts you would have been all over it. I know you are not a racist and you would have hated it – but because its a PS story you can’t bring yourself to support us, even when you know in your heart of hearts that we’re right. That’s sad.
Quentin:
Do you remember your Nazi-Measure A analogy? Just wondering.
Pie, you must drive Q crazy with your perfect logic! lol
Hm-m-m-m. I thought racial profiling was illegal . . . .
I am pretty sure Q’s crazy drive occurred long, long ago.
This is ridiculous. I read this whole blog in order to get to the part where these new districts would lead to the extermination of the Jews. Imagine my disappointment when I get to the end and there’s not even a single mention of genocide. I’m sorry, but I will NOT be able to recommend your blog to my Aryan brothers. I hope you’re happy!
Bill, you read it and still missed the point? How about if I summarize it for you? Just ignore the Hitler thang and read.
The Voting Rights Act prohibits drawing district lines that discriminate on the basis of “race, color, or membership in a protected language minority group.”
COIs are in direct opposition to that act.
What are you for?
“In the beginning of our great nation our founding fathers recognized the intellectual and cultural differences between the various races ….”
All men are created equal … but black men are not men … is that it?
You do set yourself up.
Let us talk some more about this fabulous resentment you harbor against the federal welfare state as it applies to poor (that is, colored) people. But when confronted by the fact of the Bachmann clan, who work the system as effectively as any career welfare recipient … you have nothing to complain of.
You do set yourself up.
Libby is there any part of this article that you agree with? Just curious.
Att Bill Dugan: Sorry to disappoint Bill (I hope you were kidding), but between you and me, I think this country is in serious trouble on many levels. Not the least of which is coming from people with good intentions who want to re-organize voting districts along ethnic lines, or language groups. OMG, what are they thinking?
I pray for the day when we will consider race or color irrelevant and that we’re satisfied to say, “I’m an American.” Is that too much to ask or what?
Absolutely nothing.
I went and took a look at the 1st draft of the new map and, as in years past, the cities of Orinda, Lafayette and Moraga have to consider the interests of the cities of San Pablo, Richmond and Berkeley … and you just can’t get any more balanced than that.
There may be some activists about in the world fanticizing about 1) an assembly district running from Hercules to Oakland and 2) running from Orinda to Pleasanton, but this is not really a good idea, and we’re not going to do it.
Re Libby’s: the cities of Orinda, Lafayette and Moraga have to consider the interests of the cities of San Pablo, Richmond and Berkeley
There ya go. And whose interests do the cities of San Pablo, Richmond, and Berkeley have to consider? Probably their residents.
Contra Costa County was hacked and gerrymandered to favor Democrats some 40 years ago so why fix it?
Pie, you are ignorant. See, the tax & spenders (well, them as can be got to vote) live on the west side and what repugs can be found in this neck of the woods, live on the east side of the hills … and that is, as best we can do … balance.
Very funny Libby….
It is funny … but it is also a respectable attempt to integrate the vote. The districts could easily have been drawn north-south with the hills dividing the rich from poor. It wasn’t done.
Who’s complaining?