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For anybody not caught up: Tennessee just passed a new map that pretty much makes it so black neighborhoods have no power in local votes. Two things about this. While protestors were chanting "No Jim Crow", white Tennessee lawmakers were caught laughing on video. On top of this, Representative Justin Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson were arrested for trying to give their takes on the matter (which is not only their legal right but literally his job). If you give a shit about black people, help fight this. We can't allow a return to Jim Crow.
Heyyy guess where I live
A local paper had some great photographs, all taken by Nicole Hester:
The day before, Rep. Justin Pearson tries to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is barred access by the Sergeant at Arms.
Lawmakers and protesters link arms as the descend the capitol steps.
Once inside the chamber, Democratic representatives continued to stand together with arms linked.
They continued standing together with arms linked as votes were cast.
Democratic representatives take a group photo protesting the redistricting.
Rep. Justin Jones burns a photo of the Confederate flag with the words, We will not go back.
And stomps the ashes.
KeShaun Pearson being escorted from the building by the Staties.
KeShaun Pearson (left) being taken into custody. Rep. Justin Pearson (right) showing his support of his brother.
Additional information: State lawmakers have been gunning for Pearson and Jones nearly their entire terms. Most notably, in 2023, the House expelled them for participating in a protest at the Capitol. Their districts had to have special elections to have them reinstated.
Pearson is one of the plaintiffs of a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the redistricting.
The city most affected by the redistricting is Memphis, where locals are fighting against xAI's data center, which has been operating with very little oversight and is poisoning the people who live there. Here is a previous post on that with more information and more sources.
fwiw the state reps are trying to say tennessee is a red/conservative/republican state and somehow memphis is making it not so and thus they must disenfranchise the single blue city even more than they constantly do by splitting it into further districts they can control. they already despise memphis for being predominantly black and having a democratic stronghold compared to, say, nashville, chattanooga, or knoxville which are the other three main cities not in west tn. memphis has pretty much no social safety net of any sort and extremely limited local government oversight/massive corruption which is why xai (and colossus specifically) are allowed to do whatever they want unimpeded. don't forget trump threw the national guard to "quell civil unrest" in the area as well and has sent multiple government agencies as the "memphis safe task force" along with all the state troopers now roaming around. for a while there were explicitly what seemed to be military helicopters everywhere. it's a medical, distribution, and data center/technology hub with a surprisingly international population that is rapidly shifting demographics to be larger south asian, east asian, and middle eastern/north african, in addition to its historical stronghold of a predominantly black and female population and a sizable hispanic population (much of which is currently being raided by ice).
memphis has next to no political representation in the state currently and that is by design. even attempts at instituting gun control measures limited to the city limits to reduce their own massive gun violence problem (especially targetting children! and gang violence! and domestic violence!) were immediately overruled by conservative state reps on the complete other side of the state as illegal limitations on gun rights. xai is here for the zero oversight, aquifier, and plentiful tva, not to mention the cheap and easily exploited labor with no union or government recourse. at this point any further attempt to disenfranchise memphis voters is purely sadistic control. if the state was interested in any sort of actual governance, it would intervene in the rampant political corruption, drug and alcohol abuse, or extremely obvious embezzlement and misuse of funds. they are not. they despise any sort of defiance and have made that abundantly clear, especially in their treatment of rep pearson in particular.
While the world buys flowers for their mothers on Mother’s Day… I am trying to buy oxygen and medicine to keep my mother alive in Gaza.
I am lying in a hospital bed while my little siblings cry through the bombing every night.
IF YOU STILL HAVE HUMANITY IN YOUR HEART, please help me keep my mother and siblings alive.
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