Unwoking

THEY'RE RELENTLESS, dug in so deep that all the backhoes in the Confederate States of America couldn't dig 'em out. The white boys. The good ole boys... Even after the United States Supreme Court, itself not exatly a bastian of forward thinking progressivism, recognized institutional racism when it saw it, a miracle in and of itself, and issued an order for the great belated state of Allarbammah to cut out the nonsense, it didn't happen, still hasn't happened. Since the end of reconstruction, Alabama, like all conservative states, has gerrymandered its congressional districts to limit the political power of African-Americans to the greatest, meaning least extent possible. This can be done by either of two methods; by cramming them all into one district, or by spreading them so thin that they can never have anything remotely resembling a voting block, and thus can rarely if ever elect their own candidates, even when they constitute a significant part of the state's population, say, twenty five percent, as in Alabama. Twenty five percent black, about ten percent of the power. Crackers in action, Honkies working their standard perfidy. SCOTUS gave the order, and, heavens to betsy, the congressional district with a would be should be could be black majority increased from about thirty percent black to a whopping forty percent. Still a minority, but, hell's a bit bigger one. The district shaped like a salamander has merely rolled over on its bigoted side, and nothing more. And to think, the crackers actually thought they could get away with that, sneak it by the highest court in the land. They won't. The "pushback", to use our currently popular cliche, has but barely begun, and the federal courts will most likely step in again, and show 'em how to do it right. Although you might get shot in white evangelical G.O.P. Dixie for sayin' it, let's say it; Long live Abraham Lincoln.