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MSNOW spent Saturday doing what the left has done for years: taking a normal political fight and trying to turn it into a racial crisis.
The topic was redistricting in South Carolina, where Republicans have advanced a congressional map aimed at unseating Rep. James Clyburn, the powerful Democrat who has represented the state’s 6th Congressional District since 1993.
The South Carolina House approved the GOP-backed map, which still faces the state Senate, and the proposal would also delay the state’s congressional primaries from June to August.
Clyburn is South Carolina’s only Democrat in Congress and the state’s only black member of Congress. That fact became the entire basis of MSNOW’s argument.
The network framed the Republican map as an attack on black voting power, a threat to democracy, and part of some broader racial scheme. But the basic reality is much simpler: Republicans are targeting Clyburn because he is a Democrat, not because he is black.
Political redistricting may be aggressive. It may be self-interested. It may even be bad policy in some cases. But calling every partisan move racist is exactly how Democrats have destroyed the meaning of racism in American politics.
Race is not the motivation every time a Republican tries to defeat a Democrat. Sometimes politics is just politics.
Democrats constantly claim they are the party trying to end redistricting abuse. Every time Republicans redraw congressional maps, the left immediately calls it a threat to democracy, an attack on minority voters, and proof that the GOP cannot win without manipulating district lines.
But when Democrats actually put their own redistricting proposal on paper, the claim falls apart.
The Redistricting Reform Act of 2024 does not end political manipulation in redistricting. It simply changes the language used to justify it. The bill bans mid-decade redistricting unless a court or certain laws require another map, and it says states cannot draw congressional districts that materially favor or disfavor a political party.
On the surface, that sounds like a serious effort to limit partisan gerrymandering. In reality, the bill builds in a major loophole by making race-based redistricting one of the highest priorities in the entire process.
The text requires districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act, but then goes much further. It directs states to create districts where two or more protected groups can work together to elect their preferred candidates.
It also says mapmakers must protect a racial or ethnic group’s “practical ability” to nominate and elect preferred candidates, even when that group does not make up a majority of the district’s population, voting-age population, or citizen voting-age population.
The bill even tells mapmakers to consider whether a group is politically cohesive, whether there is racially polarized voting, and whether crossover support from other voters allows the group to function as an electoral majority.
In plain English, the bill allows officials to examine how racial groups vote, determine which candidates those groups prefer, and draw districts to protect that political result.
That is why MSNOW’s framing is so dishonest. The network’s guests argued that South Carolina Republicans were diluting black voting power because many black voters in Clyburn’s district support Democrats.
But correlation is not intent. If black voters overwhelmingly support Democrat candidates, then a map that weakens Democrat power may indirectly affect black Democrat voters.
There is a major difference between targeting a race and targeting a party.
The truth is that gerrymandering is an ugly feature of American politics, but both parties use it. A congressional district does not belong to one race. A seat in Congress does not belong to one party.
Voters should choose representatives based on ideas, values, and political beliefs, not on the assumption that every racial group must elect someone of the same race.
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