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"@JoyceWhiteVance

What a SPECTACULAR confession. Allow me to translate what you just said in plain English: Black voters -- concentrated by YOUR party into race-based districts like voters are chess pieces -- can only "win" if they show up at extraordinary rates to overcome the geography YOUR party engineered. And when the Supreme Court disrupts that arrangement, where Black Americans are essentially stacked into electoral holding pens, you call that "not protecting minority voters." Jim Crow had separate drinking fountains. YOUR party draws separate congressional districts. Different century. Same plantation. What is next -- are you going to advocate for raising the minimum wage to price Black workers out of the labor market? Because that would be a spectacularly racist thing to do... and I was just informed you tweeted "it's time for a $15 minimum wage." In 1931, the Davis-Bacon Act was passed specifically to prevent Black construction workers from undercutting white union wages. Progressive Era academics openly called minimum wage floors a social cleansing mechanism to remove Black workers from the labor market entirely. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman called it "the most anti-Negro law on our statute books" in 1966. But sure. Fight for $15. What is next after THAT -- you are going to openly support an organization literally FOUNDED on eugenics to reduce the Black population? That would be actual ethnic cleansing, so surely no self-described champion of minority voters would ever... and I am now being told you have donated to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence's name and celebrated keeping it funded in federal court. Margaret Sanger was not subtle about which populations she wanted to stop from reproducing. Not subtle AT ALL. But here you stand, wringing your hands about Black voters not having the right congressional district. Here is the detail a brain trust of your caliber forgot to include: Tennessee's 9th Congressional District -- Memphis -- is a majority-Black district that FREELY ELECTED a white Democrat named Steve Cohen. Black voters chose him. Without a federally mandated racial map forcing the outcome. Apparently Black voters do not need YOUR party drawing their pond and handing them a fishing rod to participate in democracy. They managed just fine. Quinn's Law #2 runs perfectly here: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing." You are howling about the Supreme Court disenfranchising minority voters. SCOTUS just ruled 6-3 in Louisiana v. Callais (April 29, 2026) that LOUISIANA'S congressional map -- a map YOUR side drew -- was an UNCONSTITUTIONAL RACIAL GERRYMANDER. That was your map. The Court did not create a racial problem. It ruled against one. The one you created. You want more time before an election? I understand the urgency. It must be uncomfortable when the Court rules that your party's racial sorting mechanisms are unconstitutional right before you need them to work. What is next -- you are going to demand race-segregated precincts for "equity"? ...actually, your party did run exactly that system for about 70 years. They were called the white primary and the Democratic Party defended them in federal courts until 1944. But what do I know -- I am only a science teacher who has actually read the documented history your party has spent 150 years trying to bury under language about "protecting minority voters.""