If, by the grace of God, the Democratic Party ever justly perishes, it will require only a nine-word epitaph:
“Here lies the Democratic Party. It died of shamelessness.”
In a clip posted to Facebook, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Senior Pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, invited to the pulpit on Mother’s Day his colleague from the House of Representatives, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, commonly known as AOC, who shamelessly used the holy occasion to launch into a tirade about redistricting.
“I don’t take lightly the peril that we are facing just one week after the Voting Rights Act was gutted,” AOC said, referring to the Supreme Court’s landmark Callais decision handed down late last month.
In that decision, a 6-3 majority ruled that Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act neither required nor authorized states to draw congressional maps with race-based outcomes in mind.
As a result, red states, including Tennessee and Louisiana, have begun redrawing their congressional maps to eliminate majority-black districts.
“And in the days since,” AOC continued, “we have learned why the Voting Rights Act existed, as the maps in Tennessee and Louisiana, across this country, as the Supreme Court, to the reverend’s point in Virginia, overturned the maps, 10 to one, to literally draw black Americans out of power.”