NAACP Lawyer at Supreme Court: Race-Based Districts Needed Because ‘White Democrats’ Did Not Vote for Black Candidates
“It was clear that, regardless of party, white Democrats were not voting for black candidates whether they were Democrats or not,” the lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) claimed.
“We know that there is such a significant chasm between how black and white voters vote in Louisiana that there is no question that even if there some correlation between race and party, that race is the driving factor,” she continued.
Nelson on Bluesky eulogized the death of Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black militant who was given political asylum in Cuba after she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer.
She wrote in September, “Still heartbroken over the passing of freedom fighter Assata Olugbala Shakur who died in exile in Cuba. Assata means ‘she who struggles’ and she never left the struggle even during her decades of asylum. May she rest in peace and power — and as an example of undaunted resistance & resilience.”
The Supreme Court is rehearing the case Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could result in the elimination of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a provision that bars “racial gerrymandering when it dilutes minority voting power,” according to Politico.