Republicans Unveil New Map that Draws Away Tennessee’s Majority-Black House Seat

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The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the map, which slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city that makes up most of the state’s lone Democratic district.

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This new racial blindness in the law will somehow remove all black elected officials in the south which has the highest black population

How about that, intent is just so supremely hard to understand

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Taxation and regulation without representation. Go ahead, raise the pressure and give people less to live for. I’m sure that’ll work out just fine…

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Jim Crow Two Point Oh

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Traitors to the American people.

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That’s exactly what they think of you.

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