How have we not move past the point of being obligated to make special segregated districts for minorities? If it happens naturally, as is the case with my home district of TN-9 or on the South Side of Chicago, great. But drawing a montrosity like NC-12 or FL-3, just so blacks can have "their" district is highly offensive to me. It's also totally screws the Dems by packing so many of our voters into one district. It doesn't make any sense.
Minorities want their fair share of Democratic districts. If you're a Hispanic or Black Democrat it makes perfect sense.
No. Black people don't want a special segregated ghetto seat anywhere. They want inclusion in politics. In 2010, our 18 year mayor ran in a primary against our white 4 year Congressman. Mayor's stump speech was all about how it was "our" seat. And he got his a$$ handed to him by the same black voters who had elected him mayor five times.
Segregation is what certain whites want, not what blacks want. Which is also why we have an endless cycle of blacks moving into white neighborhoods and all the white people running away to the point where it becomes a black neighborhood. Story of half the neighborhoods in my hometown.
