Race Baiting Democrats

Houston Chronicle article:

Texas Senate OKs congressional redistricting map

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas senators approved a new congressional redistricting map on Monday after a fierce debate over minority representation. The Republican's chief mapmaker, Sen. Kel Seliger, spent much of the debate Monday defending his map against Democratic attack. The measure passed the Senate on an 18-12 party-line vote and now goes to the House for consideration.

Sen. Eddie Lucio, D-Brownsville, questioned why Hispanic communities along the Rio Grande, in Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth area would not see an increase in congressional representation in line with the state's growing diversity.

"How is it fair that although Anglos only make up 45 percent of our population, but they control 72 percent of our congressional districts," Lucio asked. "It does not make any sense; it is unfair."

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XLIBERALFOOL wrote:
The same worn-out, race card is pulled on every issue where Democrats are the underdog. Every single damn debate is de-evolved into a race issue by the Democrats. Even liberals (those who aren't on the extreme far left) are getting tired of the knee-jerk racism accusations. Look at some of the liberal's comments on here. They are slowly turning away from the Democrat's race-card-pulling party line. They still don't like Republicans, and thus are not happy about the redistricting map (and it's okay to say that you don't like it), but they don't like the Democrats "race opposition" tactics either.

This strategy of "if we don't get our way, we will claim racism" is wrong, and there are true victims. Someone claiming racism was a major, horrifying thing back in the '70s, '80s, and even early '90s. It was taken seriously by nearly everyone, and at the least warranted further investigation. Now it has been over used and abused by so many people, that the majority of people have become desensitized; people just brush it off. The question is, what about the people who truly are victims of racism. They deserve to have an outraged public to back them up.