Jackson Jambalaya

Can't we just be Americans, and not hypenated Americans? Not white, not black, not "people of color," but just Americans?

Oh wait, the race baiters (NAACP, Jackson, Sharpton, SPLC) would become unemployed and powerless.

What about Bennies Congressional District(2) that swoops in and carves out Canton and the rest of rural Madison County but leaves South Madison and Hwy 463 corridor for District 2. That is neat. It was Bennie who pushed that. Democrats are always wanting to move the goalposts.

The carpetbaggers and their spawn continue their reign with no expiration date in sight.

Please help me..I'm holding my breath for the legislature to create an independent redistricting commission.

Ok, if that is the case, we need to draw the maps so that ALL and I mean ALL races are equally represented in the legislature. Let's give them some oddball districts that are maybe 2 foot wide in places in order to be able to capture the correct representation. If it means we have a district that includes a neighborhood in Tupelo, Jackson and Pascagoula, hey at least people are appropriately represented by race in the Legislature. Failing that, let's make a bunch of districts that DO NOT LOOK like a 3 year old with a crayon was drawing on a map of Mississippi on Grandma's wall.

You can easily see the gerrymandered maps… NE Jackson lumped in with city of Madison but carving out black areas of ridgeland.

Why don’t we create these districts based on lines of latitude and longitude. Take the majority, minority out of the equation.

@9:12 -

You should talk to the leadership of the GOP-controlled Mississippi House and Senate if you have a problem with the shape of Bennie’s district. They drew it.

The shape of it became more ridiculous after the 2000 Census, which mandated the shrinking of MS’s Congressional delegation from 5 to 4.

@10:04 —

Repeal the Voting Rights Act of 1964.

@8:41-

We didn't hyphenate ourselves.. That was you good ole Anglo Saxon red blooded "Americans" that did that for us. You must've missed that part of American History. It's funny you can almost picture how someone looks by the words they use. Race baiter is usually reserved for someone of low education, low income, low confidence and low social standing. I'll just call you poor white trash though.

10:19
It’s all about population! Bennie got exactly what he wanted minus Northeast Jackson. I heard it out of his mouth !!

Get to the damned point, Sid. Sheesh...reading that crap with all of your rabbit trails, historical mumbo jumbo and hyperbole...what's the damned point!? You make my eyes hurt.

What's really nonsense is demanding that a district that's already 52% black be redrawn in order to make it 58% black. But that's what you get with a black, racist judge.

Growing up I was taught that I didn't get to move the goal posts to gain an advantage. The lesson was, don't cheat. Creative drawing of map lines to achieve a specific outcome is just as wrong as a poll tax or any other wrong that has occurred with elections.

Some legacies are sources of pride. Some inheritances are sources of wealth. Some history is our source of great understanding. But with the good comes the bad. Both the good and bad were well earned even if we don't want to accept the latter.

July 10, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Yeah, race hustlters routinely lie.

Hey boys and girls 3 Republican appointed judges said blacks were gerrymandered to to dilut their vote . Talk about election fraud, this is it .

Does Mississippi really need a bicameral legislature? There is often disagreement between our houses, but the Republicans hold a supermajority in both; so does it really matter?

Assuming we do want two bodies, should one be "one per county" and the other based upon population? (This may be unconstitutional, as only the Constitution itself allows for the unique appropriation of our US Senators)

There is bound to be software that can determine the most efficient district lines, regardless of race. Could everyone agree on that model and let the chips, or lines, fall where they may?

@5:23 -

Amend the Mississippi Constitution.

@ 10:53 - Your claim is nonsense. White folk didn't decide to hyphenate you and didn't change what you prefer to be called 5 or 6 times over the past 60 years. You did that yourselves.

In the fifties you demanded to be called Negroes. Then in the early sixties you changed your identity to colored, then as time went on, you became black, then African-American. Now it's People-Of-Color.

And with each succeeding change, all prior monikers suddenly became slurs. Not once did any white person participate in your morphing.

4:00 AM, well said! The goal post must keep changing in order to accommodate the “cry baby, it’s always someone else’s fault” scam. If the 10:53 AM’s of this world followed Robert L. “Bob” Woodson and Shelby Steele instead of the race hustlers that need to keep people “mad enough to vote,” they would understand how correct

Malcom X was when stating: “that white person that you see calling himself a liberal (today its progressive) is the most dangerous thing in the entire Western Hemisphere. He’s the most deceitful, he’s like a fox, and a fox is almost more dangerous in the forest than the wolf. You can see the wolf coming, you know what he’s up to. But the fox will fool you, he comes at you with his mouth shaped in such a way even though you see his teeth, you think he’s smiling.”

This is as true today as in the 1960’s and why you see white elitist Democrats either living behind gates, or in the Republican burbs or they’re fav college town, all protected from out of control Democrat controlled city crime.

Your will does not matter. The will of the people, of the majority, neither does that matter. The will of a state’s legislature is of no consequence. Because this is America, where some unelected fedjudge overturns the will of the people and their representatives. That and diversity are America’s superpowers.

Oh I hate gerrymandering. It should be eliminated.

We give " our party" carte blanche when they are in office and forget it can be used against us when they aren't in office. How stupid can we be? Millions are spent for one race for office? The two parties are the richest they ever been even using past values of money?

We've removed guardrails on bad human behaviors so crimes that once existed are now legal?

Since I've seen few social interactions and actual friendship ( you know, going to each others homes for dinner and mixed membership in the same social clubs ( civic and business/professional groups are forced) I find the racism glaring.

Frankly, Blacks are guilty as well. I've invited blacks to parties and to my home and have yet to be invited into ONE black home or to their parties in Mississippi. That was NOT the case in 3 other Southern states even back in the '70's.

The wounds are deep and not healed. The distrust between both races is blatant. Whites fear revenge and some blacks learned "governing" from the whites' worst leaders and still see little consistent improvement.

I still have true friends who aren't my race or religion but not here.

I hate seeing both races and the religions fail to learn to understand and appreciate and be enriched by getting to know one another as humans and know that we all have our angels and scoundrels.

And worse, we let self serving politicians and their hacks think for us rather than seeking truth and looking after our own self interests and well being.

Blacks are already represented in roughly equal percentages to their population. In fact, Republicans have drawn more black districts in the last two redistricting efforts. White Democrats are the ones who lost out.

Bennies District should have been expanded East rather than south. It goes nearly the length of the state.

Madison County’s redistricting was worse.

After his first election, Bennie never had to raise another dime or drop another fillet in the grease. But he's managed to become a multi-millionaire on a pauper's salary.