Delaware Black Caucus rips Democratic party leaders over proposed boundaries

DOVER -- The Delaware Black Caucus is accusing Democratic legislative leaders of "racial gerrymandering" in the redistricting process and is threatening to appeal its case for more heavily minority districts to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The group of black elected leaders have called on lawmakers to reconfigure House and Senate districts with large racial minority populations in Bear, Dover, New Castle and Wilmington to make the populations more dominated by racial minorities.

"It is our view that the proposed redistricting plans violate the spirit and the intention of the federal Voting Rights Act. We cannot and will not accept the status quo," Delaware Black Caucus chairman Jea Street wrote in a letter to House Speaker Robert Gilligan and Senate President Pro Tem Anthony DeLuca.

The strife between black Democrats and their white party leaders has triggered suggestions that blacks consider leaving the state's ruling party.

Read more: http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110615/NEWS02/106150363/Black-Caucus-rips-Democratic-party-leaders-over-proposed-boundaries

but in Florida, whenever they make a majority-black district it makes the four seats around it safe for white, rich, stodgy Republicans who will vote opposite the one safe black representative, and if you want to talk about neutralizing the black vote, there you go. I don't think gerrymandered majority-minority districts are a real path to integration in the government for minorities. There has to be some middle ground between gerrymandering the black vote into oblivion by scattering it and by hyper-concentrating it.

representative. It's really the most self-defeating shit imaginable. They'd rather have 4 racist white Republicans and a black democrat than 3 non-racist white Democrats and 2 racist Republicans (or whatever).

and let the chips fall where they may.

What really needs to happen is for us to have MORE reps, and to stop the insanity that we have now.. We do nothing but play musical chairs every 10 years, as if we have the same number of people we had in 1911, when the top number was set..

Chicago and New York are prime examples of having large populations without black representation, and blacks tax payers aren't awarded any government contracts.

Our system is not really set up for "fairness", or we would have a parliament

as long as we have the limited system we have , things will always be unfair...

way.

:grr:

the myth alive.

There is a lot of selfishness among s'tome legislators when it comes to minority-majority districts. If they can't get elected in a district that isn't minority-majority, then that is their problem.

We are the last one hired and the first one fired.