Jasmine Crockett Calls Out The Racism Behind Trump's New Texas Gerrymander

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) explained the blatant racism behind Trump's push to further gerrymander Texas House districts.

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The attempted gerrymander of the Texas congressional map that is being pushed by Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, and Governor Greg Abbott might at first be difficult to understand because Texas is already extremely gerrymandered, but Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) explained exactly what is happening.

Crockett said:

Texas has always been found to be intentionally discriminatory, and so I want y'all to understand the makeup of my state. The state is a majority minority state, and what this legislature historically has done is what they plan to do again, is to dilute the voices of people of color in order to make sure that they can get to where they're trying to go.

We saw this Department of Justice decided to put out a letter. And what did they do? We only have four seats that are represented by black folk, where the vast majority of the people that get to decide who they have represent them are black. They decided to attack three …