The Order of the Sisters of Rukia is not happy about the upcoming redistricting in Mississippi.
MISSISSIPPI GOT SMOKE!!!
We want all the smoke. From the hood to the hollows, all of Mississippi, we are pulling up to apply pressure and clear the SMOKE!!!
The audacity of this Governor to call a special session in twenty-one days to redraw maps that a federal judge already ruled unlawfully dilute Black voting power, maps whose effect is to reduce Black representation on the Mississippi Supreme Court, in a state where 38 percent of the population is Black, and where some legislators are openly calling to eliminate the only majority Black congressional district in Mississippi and produce a map that would leave the most Black state in America with zero Black congressional representation. That is what this special session is about. And this same governor has never once called a special session to address hospital closures, Medicaid expansion for the nearly 200,000 Mississippians falling through the coverage gap, a minimum wage above $7.25 an hour, the highest infant mortality rate in the nation, seven counties with no hospital at all, roads rated D-minus, or drinking water systems rated D-minus and getting worse. But in 2024 he called a special session to hand Amazon, one of the wealthiest corporations in the world, a ten year 100 percent corporate income tax exemption and a thirty year rolling tax deal. He moved fast for Amazon. He has never moved like that for Holmes County, Humphreys County, Claiborne County, Tunica County or Issaquena County, five communities among the poorest in this entire nation sitting inside the poorest state in this country. Nobody is getting a return on their tax dollars except the corporations this administration keeps cutting deals for, and every working family in Mississippi regardless of race is paying the price for it.
For too long the people with the most to lose have been the last ones in the room, and sometimes they never make it in the room at all. The poor, the low income, the working families living inside these failures their whole lives without ever being asked what they think, they deserve to speak for themselves, and we are making space for exactly that on May 20th, not as props or statistics but as people whose lives are the evidence and whose voices are the testimony.
The Mississippi House is walking into the Old Capitol to do this work, the same building where the 1890 Constitutional Convention was held, where the convention president stood up and said out loud “We came here to exclude the Negro,” and where Black registered voters in this state went from more than 130,000 to less than 1,300 within a decade. They are going back into that building to draw new maps. We will be standing outside of it.
We want all the smoke. From the hood to the hollows, all of Mississippi, we are pulling up to apply pressure and clear the SMOKE!!!
Old Capitol | 100 South State Street | Jackson, MS
May 20th | 10:00 AM - Press Conference
Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in partnership with One Voice Mississippi
Meanwhile, State Auditor Shad White is pushing in the opposite direction. Mr. White posted on Facebook:
Ask every elected official you know where they stand on redrawing Bennie Thompson’s congressional district.
Make them say it plainly.Every Republican statewide and member of Congress in Mississippi—not just me, alone—should be calling to end the district gerrymandered to protect Bennie Thompson. We should all be singing from the same hymnal.
Get ready for the fireworks.
25 comments:
Lets do this!
It hurts me to say it, but I actually think they make some legitimate points, while shamelessly invoking slavery. And the MSGOP plays right into it by playing politics and rolling over for special interests.
Meanwhile, Shad White is using the auditor's office to campaign for governor. There is no other reason for him to weigh in on redistricting.
Sister Rukia claims the state will have zero black congressional representation if the lines are redrawn. Well, Sister, that’s exactly what you have now with Bennie.
KF, you should have published Sister Rukia’s statement of outrage when Virginia redrew their congressional districts.
It DOES nothing to the voting outcomes, but to eliminate the only 'dark district' would be overrtly discriminate & 'racist?' So drop the damaging re-draw of our State, Tate...
We have such a negative reputation as it is, such dismal scores on so many topics....yet some of the most beautiful land & coastline in the US of A.
So few words, so many grammatical errors. I know they don't realize they should be embarrassed by this, however.
Can we get Shad on a workout routine and some test?
They were silent on Lumumba.
As Senator Tim Scott states let's elect leaders on ideas, not identity and its time to get rid of the "leader" elected on identity in Mississippi: I beat Strom Thurmond’s son in a majority-white district for a seat in Congress.
Then won statewide in South Carolina, a majority white state.
South Carolina elects leaders based on ideas, not identity. Stop erasing reality to rig the game.
Here again, the leaders of the "Black for a livin" are chirping. Most of these people, would benefit from a lifestyle change, instead of free handouts. But the problem is that Uncle Bennie is out for Uncle Bennie. Not for the black constituents. But the black majority is brainwashed into thinking if I cry racism, I get free stuff. If you dont like your situation, change it. Dont blame others.
Just moved to Mississippi. If Congressmen Thompson is doing his job for his district there should be no problem with him getting re-elected. Voters vote on the accomplishments and merit of the person not the skin color or affiliations. Right?
Allow me to translate this nonsense into simple English:
"Continue to enrichen me by ironically making your tax deductible donation payable to Mississippi Poor People's Campaign."
Unpopular opinion but I don't think there should be any changes made this year since we've already had primaries for the U.S. House. I dislike Bennie as much as anyone but not because of his race but his general low IQ (and I dislike Hyde-Smith for the same reason, we could do far better for a Senator).
The insanity to make totally red and blue states months before midterm elections is an example of how little these people care about improving the lives of the country and their constituents. It's nothing but power and gotcha games that make these people very rich while Rome continues to burn.
Exactly. How many times has his district been increased? Look at his district looks worse since he git it, while he has gotten rich 🙄
If a politician is honest, loyal, and good for the people who elect him he will win. If the only thing he has to fall back on is because he is black he should not be elected. It is about time for the black people take a good look at the people they elect.
The US Supreme Court just handed down a 6-3 decision that a voting district drawn on the basis of skin color is unconstitutional.
Why is this so controversial?
The irony here is staggering. Mississippi Republicans helped create and maintain the very districting strategy they’re suddenly condemning because it protected surrounding Republican districts for years.
Packing Black voters into one majority-Black district made 2nd District elections less competitive while strengthening Republican performance elsewhere. That wasn’t an accident. It was a political design choice.
Now the same people benefiting from that arrangement want to call it “gerrymandering” because they don’t like who the voters keep electing.
This is going to get messy….popcorn in hand
Rukia continues the race grift. Bennie continues to raise the "race card." So predictable, and racist, both.
Brown v Board of education ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional, yet democrats want separate but equal black voting districts.
Since you brought it up, Virginia’s redistricting plan was approved by the voters of that state in a referendum. Are you able to grasp the difference?
11:53 Actually the argument of most black activists was never against separate but equal. The argument was that black people never got equal but only got separate but unequal. If equality had been the real result after slavery, blacks would not have insisted on integration in the first place. The integration strategy did not originate with blacks but with dangerous white liberals. Check it out.
@1045: So because of convenience, the good people of Mississippi should just allow a district drawn UNCONSTITUTIONALLY on racial means to continue for another 2 years and don't deserve to have Representatives in Congress who actually represent their ideals? Nobody would stop Bennie from running for reelection in his new District and if he wins the new district then the majority of the people who would have elected him have spoken.
@12:08 Since you brought it up, Virginia’s supreme court ruled the redistricting illegal because Democrats didn't follow the state's constitution. Are you able to grasp the difference?
@ 1:03pm
The Virginia ruling was about whether Democrats followed the state constitution during the process, not whether partisan redistricting itself is suddenly wrong.
Both parties redraw maps for political advantage when they can. Mississippi Republicans benefited from these district lines for years until they stopped liking the outcome.
So now we’re pretending competitive districts are suddenly the priority? Pick a struggle.
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