Roy Cooper rebuked him, saying Robinson “does not speak for North Carolina.” The N.C. Mark Robinson has made and doubled down on remarks calling lessons about people who are gay or transgender “filth.” Democratic Gov. Lest you think I’m picking on Texas, in North Carolina, my current home base, Republican Lt. Many are already certain adults aren’t giving them the whole truth. When teachers tape over library shelves, it’s not exactly the message we want to send the inquiring minds of young people. After all, this is a state where enslaved men, women and children were characterized as “workers” in a textbook. In Texas, a fearful administrator got in trouble for encouraging books promoting “ opposing views” of the Holocaust, just to satisfy a new restrictive law. If history includes racial truths that lead to understanding and progress, these folks want none of it. It seems what they really fear are lessons that tell the truth about America, a country with lofty promises it has not always lived up to. Texas is just one place where you can find adults yelling at and sometimes threatening schoolteachers and administrators over what is not critical race theory (and I defy any of the objectors to come up with a coherent definition). Those new laws won’t, of course, end abortion for those with the means to travel to another state it will just drive desperate girls and women to seek desperate solutions. It’s no longer “Love thy neighbors,” but snitch on them for bounty if we think they’re even thinking about getting an abortion. Texas is not the outlier, but the leader on this kind of obstinance, passing laws to loosen gun rules and unleash poll watchers on any voter deemed suspicious, turning them into the bullies (perhaps armed) that we warn our children about. Unwilling to share leadership with people who were once locked out by law, states are changing the rules of democracy, and that is not a game. population growing less white, it’s an existential threat to those who see resources and representation as zero-sum. Joaquin Castro, who represents the San Antonio area, said the new map was “designed to discriminate, particularly against Latinos, who are the driving force behind the state’s population growth.”Īs the census counts a U.S. But every battle for every vote will be a tough one.
Sheila Jackson Lee’s new district many of the Black Houston residents she currently represents. From Washington, his party sees advantage in election antics in states such as Texas, where GOP-heavy leadership is greedily grabbing the two House seats delivered by an increasing and increasingly diverse electorate with one hand, and gerrymandering away minority representation with the other.Īfter protests, the Republicans who control the Texas Legislature and the redistricting process have restored to Democratic Rep.
That’s not the view of Senate Republicans, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who understands the ruthless power game without regard to the example it sets for the next generations. But for anyone interested in a true representative form of government in the United States, something is needed. How far Democrats will go to pass rules that creep toward restoring parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, obliterated by the Supreme Court, is uncertain. Joe Manchin was brought to the floor Wednesday, not for a vote but for a mere discussion, Republicans offered no help. But when, as promised by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the compromise bill massaged by holdout West Virginia Sen. Take voting rights. If the goal of our democracy is to let all eligible Americans vote and for every one of those votes to count, the Freedom to Vote Act would have had a clear glide path to passage. Rules are for suckers, unless you’re the one who makes them. Follow the right and righteous path, and you shall be rewarded.īut the examples being set on very public stages tell an entirely different story, one that says accumulating power is the goal, with no guardrails on how you acquire and keep it. And we warn them that bullies never win in the end. We teach our children lessons about leading with empathy and intelligence, about taking the high road, about playing fair.
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