Black politics needs more than better voting maps – Scalawag
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The modern voting rights movement has become a tool to preserve the Black politician’s job, particularly the establishment Democrat.

We are not claiming that voting isn’t important, or downplaying the fact that Republicans are racially motivated in their redistricting plans for Congress, state legislatures, and local governments. That is obvious. Nor do we discount the activists of the 1960s, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the right to vote. Rather, we believe this is an opportunity to reimagine our very systems of government.

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