Quote:And then there isn't one minority represented by those counties who have less than a 25% rate of the specific minority. You have disenfranchisement codified directly into the system. At least now the AA population has a gerrymandered district where they can elect one of their own to represent their particular set of interests, even if they do indicate that their interest are pork for the congresswoman and bad grammar.

 

That's assuming that the Black community needs a Black representative, the White community needs a White representative, the Hispanic community needs a Hispanic representative and so on. I argue Duval needs representatives proportional to their population regardless if they're all White, Black, Hispanic, Asian or a mix of the assortment. Maybe the rural counties like Putnam, Marion, Clay wouldn't have a minority representative, so what, are we to believe that the representatives wouldn't work for the good of the county as a whole just because they belong to a specific race?

 

If racial representation trumps proportional representation we're screwed. Let's just scrap the republican and democratic parties and have a black, white and brown parties if that's the case. To me that's going backwards? 

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