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BumRushDaShow

(172,175 posts)
Sun May 17, 2026, 07:12 PM 10 hrs ago

Mike Johnson shrugs off Black voters' concerns about GOP gerrymandering: 'This brings back fairness'

Source: The Independent

Sunday 17 May 2026 11:52 EDT


House Speaker Mike Johnson said that attempts to redraw his home state of Louisiana’s congressional lines, which could give Republicans an advantage at the risk of depriving Black voters of representation, was about fairness.

In conversation with Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday, Johnson was asked what his message was to Black Americans after the Supreme Court delivered a severe blow to the Voting Rights Act.

“The Supreme Court issued a long-awaited opinion, and I think it was long overdue, and they stated the obvious, that drawing congressional lines must be fair,” Johnson said. “You cannot draw lines on the basis of race, and that's what was done in Louisiana.”

Last month, the Supreme Court handed down Louisiana v Callais, which called the state’s inclusion of a second majority-Black congressional district an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”. The ruling all but killed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 law that prohibited laws that discriminate on the basis of race.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-johnson-black-voters-gerrymandering-b2978177.html

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Mike Johnson shrugs off Black voters' concerns about GOP gerrymandering: 'This brings back fairness' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 10 hrs ago OP
Racist defends racism. Solly Mack 10 hrs ago #1
Yes fairness for you, you stupid white guy. efhmc 10 hrs ago #2
He better be careful. Soon he'll surpass his boss as the biggest liar in American government. littlemissmartypants 10 hrs ago #3
Because Jim Crow was about fairness. dalton99a 9 hrs ago #4
Shrugging shit off is his tired old schtick JoseBalow 8 hrs ago #5
Well, Trump took his balls. surfered 8 hrs ago #6
They're nicely displayed Quanto Magnus 7 hrs ago #7
The white man is afraid he will lose dominance and the crap they pulled on the less powerful will be pulled on them Stargazer99 6 hrs ago #8
Typical racist sentiment. If a black person benefits, it means it's unfair to white people tulipsandroses 5 hrs ago #9
Remember this in January and put his arse in the basement and at the back of the bus. Buddyzbuddy 2 hrs ago #10
I'm sure he believes black people are only 3/5ths of a white person. AZ8theist 44 min ago #11

littlemissmartypants

(34,339 posts)
3. He better be careful. Soon he'll surpass his boss as the biggest liar in American government.
Sun May 17, 2026, 07:19 PM
10 hrs ago

If he looks too effective at it, one wonders. Will DJ get jealous?

Stargazer99

(3,563 posts)
8. The white man is afraid he will lose dominance and the crap they pulled on the less powerful will be pulled on them
Sun May 17, 2026, 10:29 PM
6 hrs ago

If the white race becomes less in number than the other races that politics will take the white dominance away
That could explain why this anti abortion crap came up. Did I strike a nerve?

tulipsandroses

(8,298 posts)
9. Typical racist sentiment. If a black person benefits, it means it's unfair to white people
Mon May 18, 2026, 12:15 AM
5 hrs ago

Yep. Doesn’t matter that we are the least represented almost anywhere.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,890 posts)
10. Remember this in January and put his arse in the basement and at the back of the bus.
Mon May 18, 2026, 02:33 AM
2 hrs ago

G'damn crackr *ss, smurf, M'FER.

AZ8theist

(7,626 posts)
11. I'm sure he believes black people are only 3/5ths of a white person.
Mon May 18, 2026, 04:41 AM
44 min ago

RELEASE MIKE JOHNSONS GRINDR PROFILE!!!

FUCKING RACIST, HYPOCRITICAL SCUMBAG.

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