Voting without representation is un-American. Southern states and Texas seek to impose a sideways Jim Crow on their black and Latino residents. While not denying non-Anglos access to ballot boxes, the good ol’ boys seek to diminish black and Latino focus and voices in legislatures.
But first let us credit the foul being who’s instigated this revival. Donald Trump. In his dishonor let’s rename it “Don Crow.”
Watching most Southern states and Texas legislatures go hellbent into diluting or outright eliminating black and Latino legislative representation, let us state that MAGA has dropped its already tattered threadbare veil. True Americans get to see the pale monster’s real face. And let it be said that after all sorts of acrobatic denials of their intents, MAGAs get to see themselves reflected in our disgust with them. The movement for needlessly fearful and aggrieved and insecure Anglos has now become a cracker and dumbass gringo commune.
For those communities throughout the South and Texas where Republicans intend to impose Don Crow, take this advice from long-ago labor agitator Joe Hill: “Don’t mourn. Organize.” Dust off history books. Learn, or in too many cases relearn, how grandparents and great-grandparents turned back the tide and beat suppression worse than what’s currently faced. The racism they had to defeat was ingrained. Brutal. It was hundreds of times uglier, its ranks full of proponents filthier than TACO himself and MAGAs.
Unlike the older black and Latino Americans, today’s generations have much better grasps behind the raw power of economics. Reasoning and rhetoric are rapiers. Don Crow needs broadswords against it.
Dollars.
Withhold those dollars.
Use them as economic leverage.
For communities under threat these are cudgels against those Anglos desirous of putting blacks and Latinos “back in their places.” Keep those dollars in your pockets. Deny Anglos as much of that green for as long as possible. Keep those dollars in pockets long enough and business interests which fund legislators whose Don Crow initiatives are to marginalize other Americans will squeal to representatives they’ve purchased. Money just doesn’t talk. It can also be made to yell in pain.
But those in communities affected must have the determination to persevere. Grandparents and great-grandparents did. They were Americans who had more to lose than this present generation does. The question becomes do their successors and inheritors have the same strength? My fellow Americans, this is the challenge for today.
Recently, this criminal administration’s Department of Justice dispatched FBI swat teams to collect a few files from a Virginia legislator’s office. Naturally the legislator is black. One of the old sisters of the South who undoubtedly retains the sharp sear of “massive resistance.”
MAGAs, as well as Gusanos for Trump too dumb to know they’ll never be accepted as white by Anglos, are jumping for joy at this clear overreach. Yeah. Although it’s only simmering now, it looks like the American pot will be boiling over this summer. The only beneficial part about those kinds of outbursts may be cities in Texas and the South at risk of being charred instead of Newark or Detroit. Too bad but just. Until the scab returned to thoroughly soil the Oval Office, America had done a good job of keeping its chickens from coming home to roost.
Since the Supreme Court diminished the Voting Rights Act, observation has been used to contradict.
I’ve taken every opportunity on social media to rebut correspondents who somehow believe the Act discriminated against Anglos. The power required to flip whole slabs of American history just to express a feel-good delusion might be enough to light our cities.
Anyway, besides throwing Don Crow back in pale faces, I repeatedly give such oblivious and forgetful commenters short, sharp recaps why race-drawn legislative districts were necessary in the first place. Indeed, someday they won’t be required but that day is generations off yet. I’m still waiting to be refuted. No one has come along and disputed me. Why? Because they know. They know they’re on the wrong side of the contention.
I have no idea what it takes to convince oneself so to hold a position known to be wrong. Not mistaken. Wrong. Mistakes can be forgiven. Being wrong and knowing it’s wrong but adhering to it because though it’s recognized as being wrong that needs less strength to hold than releasing the grievance by admitting it false.
Then again who would want to confess being that weak?
Anglos defending the Supreme Court’s diminishing the Voting Rights Act refuse to acknowledge why there were ever race-based legislative districts in the first place. As American history has shown, Anglo legislators whose districts encompassed sizable non-Anglo citizens did little, dismissed, or outright ignored those voters. No, it can’t be denied. This occurred. Period. No discussion.
It was presumed correctly that districts gerrymandered to emphasize minority populations would elect representation that would pursue those constituents’ interests. Which is what happened. With the rejiggering or elimination of minority majority districts through Don Crow we all can expect the disgraceful disregard and disdain of specific American segments to return. This is not a proud moment for America. It is just one more step backwards promoted by the grifter in chief.
Consumer sentiment will negate what Republicans intend to finagle through redrawing electoral maps. By November 2026 the electorate will be beyond good and pissed at having to pay far more for everything thanks to the scab’s whimsical misgoverning and abysmal mismanaging of the United States. Voters won’t be able to punish him, but nationwide any candidate with an R besides his or her name will be vulnerable to retribution. Expect to see Democrats win in districts once thought unimaginable.
Mainstream media has done a lousy job reporting Americans’ anger at the interruptions and disruptions in their lives brought on since January 2025. And we know these conditions are only going to worsen throughout 2026. By now what American honest with him- or herself doesn’t know this? If there was a time for reputable journalism to have been fearless, it should’ve started at 12:01 p.m. on January 20th, 2025.
Anglos who approve the Court’s measure to dilute the Voting Rights Act have forgotten – or ignored or dismissed – why there are race-based districts in the first place. We have them because for most of America’s history, non-Anglos were excluded from government. While present-day discrimination is nowhere near as whip-smart harsh as before, it still exists. Yes, it does, as Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts well knows.
When Anglo legislators neglect their non-Anglo constituents (as it used to be in wide swaths of the South and Texas) the only way to somewhat resolve this had been through creation of districts likely to be held by representatives who’ll have common cause with their otherwise marginalized constituents. Peculiar as this remedy is, it works for real Americans in the United States. Which is why weak insecure men in the MAGA cult, Southern and Texans legislators, and six of nine Supreme Court Justices disfavor it. Their contrariness should not be barriers to progress. No one minds if they wish to stay behind. The rest of us just wish they’d move aside and let us go forward.
Throughout the South and Texas, Anglo legislators habitually neglect their black and Latino constituents. Hence the need for representatives who reflect the needs of those voters. Used to see the same with late 19th/early 20th century white ethnic immigrant voters. That was before they became acceptable to mainstream America and just started being seen as “white.”
One magnificent and blunt way those who are intended to be sidelined may further leverage their strength is through sports. Collegiate sports. Crackers and sidewinding gringos invest inordinate amounts self-worth and identity in sporting pastimes. Must wonder how better off, how fuller their lives might be if they’d turned that attention and energy into efforts that’d raise their regions out of being recognized as less dynamic America.
There are probably major and mid-major conferences outside the South and Texas hungrily eying developments in the Southeast. The common thought would be calculating possible windfalls of stud players. Though smaller than the major conferences, mid-majors could boost their NIL offerings by pitching their alliances’ significant upgrades should Southeastern and Atlantic Coast Conference players start balking at performing for Plantation U’s because their communities’ political representation will be diminished. Done right, presented by the right people, this would not be a hard sell.
Which is worse? Crackers and nitwit gringos who argue against black and Latino legislative districts? Or crackers and halfwit gringos who’d swear they’d vote for a black or Latino candidate if he or she was “qualified”?
About the first contention, America has previously had specific districting that satisfied ethnic groups. White ethnics. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries in urban centers, wards were drawn containing them. Maybe in New York and Boston these comprised those of Irish or Italian heritage. Maybe in Chicago constituencies consisted of Poles, Irish, and Italians. Only after their immigrant successors had bleached their heritage were they accepted as mainstream Americans.
In recent years, it’s become clear that blacks and Latinos, no matter how deeply immersed into the mainstream, and despite their foundational presences in America, will need further lifetimes to reach the same acceptance. And this only because the stubborn strain doing its utmost to keep blacks and Latinos on societal margins must first die into extinction. Like the dinosaurs they are.
About the second contention, any cracker or inbred gringo who mentions “qualified” as the criterion for casting ballots for candidates who do not reflect their complexions needed to have applied “qualified” to the Queens mook. He’s a thief, liar, rapist, and traitor most MAGAs have voted for three times. His only quality is embodying and giving voice to Anglo Americans’ invented grievances and unsupported resentments.
Since introduction of Don Crow throughout the South and Texas, too many Americans, particularly younger ones, despair of that region sliding pell-mell into retrograde. They bear that anxiety because they are young. Nothing in their experiences have prepared them for once disdained now flaming biases that have publicly erupted into discrimination.
Moreover, American education does a better job of glossing over the darkness from whence we’ve emerged. Nor does it much explain how we came into the light that bathes more of us. Therefore, on this basis the young have little idea of what our nation is capable of when its good is finally aroused.
After a time, one hopes sooner rather than later, new waves of advocates and agitators will spring from the populaces under cracker and wretched gringo fear posturing pressures. How our inheritor generations throttle those dedicated to blocking them may demand less quarter than their predecessors’ efforts. Wish it were different but those pressing for Don Crow are desperate. They know this is their last gasp.
As did the crackers and low-rate gringos of old, their motley inheritors know what they’re doing is wrong. But unlike those past malefactors, those of today have already been shown the fallacies of their beliefs.
They’ve already been shown and know they’re wrong. At least the previous bunch had ignorance on its side.
In the end, the forces opposing fairness, justice, and equality cannot have the hand of reconciliation extended afterwards. This time they must be ostracized, if not altogether put down like the rabid dogs they are. Many in the new movements which will finally spring against cracker and grudging gringo overreach, overstep, and facile confidence may initially summon the sainted spiritedness of Martin Luther King’s moral persuasion. Kindness and lenience today will only open doors to new Don Crows tomorrow.
Our 21st century crackers and idolatrizing gringos need to be crushed. The guiding principle should be this unwavering dictum from Malcolm X: “By any means necessary.”
Know much of that progress upward from second-class status blacks, Latinos, and women had made since the 1960s? Particularly women nationwide. Frightened, insecure crackers and useless gringos have clawed plenty of it back. The question now is does this and future generations of blacks, Latinos, and women have the same sort of strength and mettle to not only retrieve what’s rightfully theirs as Americans, but for once and all cement it into our nation’s fabric?
It will be a test that should produce interesting (and hopefully rewarding) results regarding this generation’s levels of grit. The arrogant impulses of cracker and pinche gringo America are forcing the country’s black and Latino residents to once again show beyond a doubt they indeed do fulfill our nation’s highest accolade – citizen.
Crackers and cretinous gringos are trying to twist the South’s and Texas’ elevation of Don Crow into one about voting. As in blacks and Latinos may still vote. Don Crow is about representation, not being able to just cast ballots.
During the actual Jim Crow Era, blacks and Latinos were taxpayers denied votes and representation. These days, what good is it having a vote if the servants whose salaries we pay high hat constituents’ concerns? This occurs to Southern blacks and Texas Latinos in Republican districts.
To be plain, black and Latino legislators in regions under threat of Don Crow erasure are attentive to those constituents’ concerns. Blacks and Latinos residing in districts represented by entrenched MAGAs and gusano bootlickers have and will and will continue to be neglected by them.
A few may benefit if America slides “whitewards.” Yet the nation as a whole will suffer. True Americans everywhere cannot desire Don Crow for any portion of the United States.
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