Blacks still crying "racism"

Tennessee's House minority leader ties Democrats' tantrums to numerology and Obama

Tennessee state Republicans passed a new congressional map last week that, applying the logic of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Callais ruling, carves up a Democrat-held district that was the product of a racial gerrymander.

They managed to do so despite obstruction and gross incivility from their Democrat colleagues.

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, for instance, walked around the chamber blowing a bullhorn in the faces of lawmakers and subjecting them to potential noise-induced hearing loss. Jones — a Democrat who was caught on film throwing a traffic cone at a driver during a 2020 Black Lives Matter blockade — also set fire to a printout of the Confederate flag and repeatedly accused Republicans of racism.

Justin Jones says Tennessee Republicans are reviving “Confederacy 2.0” by targeting Black political power through redistricting and racial intimidation tactics.



The U.S. Supreme Court's Callais decision heavily weakened federal protections under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), sparking immediate mid-decade congressional redistricting across Tennessee.

The high court ruled that states cannot overly rely on race to dictate legislative maps, effectively allowing partisan politics to guide redrawn boundaries.

This decision completely reshaped Tennessee's electoral landscape and triggered significant legal battles.