Black Power Manifesto: If Black people stayed Down South we'd control Congress

[OfTheCross]

From Charles Blow's "The Black Power Manifesto":

Considered another way, 44 percent of Black people in America now live outside the South. However, hypothetically speaking, if just half of them moved back south and were strategically arrayed, it would be enough to make Black people the largest racial group in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, a contiguous band of Black power that would upend America’s political calculus and exponentially increase Black political influence.

Furthermore, if the Great Migration hadn’t taken place, Black people could control or form the majority influence for as many as ninety Electoral College votes, more than California and New York State combined.

View this plan for Black power in the context of the current landscape of white power. White people have constituted a majority of the population in every state but Hawaii for the last ninety years. Eight states—Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Idaho, Wyoming, and Iowa—are over 90 percent white and control one out of every six senate seats in America. The Black population is four times the population of those eight states combined but controls no senate seats.
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We gotta start working better

 

[tuckgod]

Facts.

 

[FaTaL]

Not true, look at Louisiana

 

[rbksNgirbauds]

Naw, you gotta start at the root. It don't matter where we move if we ont broach certain fundamental tenets. And by that I mean getting to the core issues as to why we're so damn dysfunctional (as a unit).

Starting in the household. But if nikkas started having honest conversations like that, it's gonna trigger alottttt of black people that THINK they're for their people... And that goes for both genders

 

[Easy-E]

So, shaming us to vote a Democrat into office not working anymore

Now, we can't move for better lives because of Senate seats?

Charles Blow has definitely been blocked on twitter

 

[OfTheCross]

Not true, look at Louisiana

White ppl are 60% of the population vs. 30% for Blacks in Louisianna

 

[Json]

Police out here exterminating us without prejudice and this dude’s idea if we’d just stayed clumped in one area we’d be good?

 

[FaTaL]

White ppl are 60% of the population vs. 30% for Blacks in Louisianna

More higher then most and most of all they don’t vote

 

[Json]

As someone from a blue area in Mississippi, I can tell you it doesn’t matter. The state legislatures are the ones who affect people’s most day to day affairs( taxes, sanitation, etc) and black people can take over one or two states if we concentrated into them.

But over all the white people would just cut us into a certain area and then starve those areas for resources( which is what they do to Jackson)

 

[ORDER_66]

while the idea of taking over entire southern counties and states is sound there's still too many white people in places now to fukk that all up...

 

[OG Talk]

The dirty little secret is the Black people that want political power, don’t really want to live around other Black folks.

 

[Freedman]

Not true, look at Louisiana

You have to take things like Gerrymandering into account. There was recently a special election for a congress house seat and New Orleans and Baton Rouge the 2 largest cities with high black populations are in one district

 

[OfTheCross]

You have to take things like Gerrymandering into account. There was recently a special election for a congress house seat and New Orleans and Baton Rouge the 2 largest cities with high black populations are in one district

Gerrymandering is huge. HR1 is the bill that we need to save America