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The Return Of Jim Crow Politics Through Redistricting

A Modern Redistricting Fight With Deep Roots In America’s Jim Crow Past

There is a resurrection of Jim Crow white supremacy across the country as those who want to protect bigotry have joined Republicans and Trump puppets. White supremacy has never gone anywhere and with Trump and his fanatical followers at the helm it is sure to get worse.

The racist redistricting efforts, all designed to undermine the 1965 Voting Rights Act, are taking shape to accomplish two things; ensure that Republicans maintain control of the Congress and the Senate, and destroy Black representation as was done by Jim Crow law after the Civil War.

Mandy Cook, left, and Cheryl Woodard, hold signs during a rally against a special session of the state legislature to redraw U.S. Congressional voting maps Tuesday, May 5, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Mandy Cook, left, and Cheryl Woodard, hold signs during a rally against a special session of the state legislature to redraw U.S. Congressional voting maps Tuesday, May 5, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

These old white supremacist confederates from the grave have risen like Dracula with their fangs dripping with injustice. The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, and in state governments across the country are attempting to destroy the Voting Rights Act. They are fostering hatred, voter suppression, and racist inequalities.

Jim Crow Racism And Trump’s Love Of Gold

These attacks are direct frontal assaults against Black people by those who want to see Trump remain in office with his white-only agenda.

They love the dictator for ending most DEI programs, empowering the riot and insurrection at the Capitol, aligning himself with crazed white supremacist groups, supporting the indictments of his enemies (weaponizing the Justice Department), starting a war with Iran, supporting the genocide of Netanyahu in Gaza, erecting a golden cow statue of himself and a golden ballroom (Goldfinger), putting his despicable name on the Kennedy Center, disrespecting women, fabricating lies on a daily basis, and appointing racist and extremist heads to federal departments and in the federal court system.

U.S. President Donald Trump displays a rendering of his proposed $250 million White House ballroom as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, October 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
U.S. President Donald Trump displays a rendering of his proposed $250 million White House ballroom as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, October 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
U.S. President Donald Trump receives a McDonald's delivery via DoorDash from Sharon Simmons outside the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 13, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
U.S. President Donald Trump receives a McDonald’s delivery via DoorDash from Sharon Simmons outside the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 13, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

He has been described as a narcissist, caring only about himself, while pretending to never be wrong. He wants to pardon himself, stay in office, end the 14th Amendment, curtail the right to free speech, deport anyone that ICE goons have been told to arrest to get bonus checks, separate children from their parents, and hold innocent people in Hitler-styled detention centers.

If it is bad and ugly, Trump will try to accomplish it. He will go down as perhaps the worst president of all time, riveling the racist Andrew Jackson. 

Hitler Like Language And The Politics Of Fear

Trump lied about his favorite book. Trump denied that he had read Hitler’s memoir, Mein Kampf, but he showed his true colors by referring to his political enemies as “vermin” and saying that illegal immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

These words are echoes of Hitler’s crazed ideological ideas that led to millions being killed. According to ABC News, Ivana Trump, his first wife, she said, “That from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, ‘My New Order,’ which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.”’

He has made a crucial blunder. This is not Germany, nor is it 1930. People who voted for Trump are turning against him as gas prices rise and groceries prices soar. He promised to end high groceries prices only becoming fixated on gold statues and golden ballrooms. Now he lies about the Bible being his favorite book!

Christian Nationalism Gives Extremism A Religious Cover

Fake Christians are now honoring “Mr. Goldfinger.” These fakers have spun the politics of a dictator into a web of “Christianity,” called “Christian Nationalism.”

Backlash extended beyond church leaders, with conservative figures also criticising the AI-generated image of US President Donald Trump [Reuters]
Backlash extended beyond church leaders, with conservative figures also criticising the AI-generated image of US President Donald Trump [Reuters]

Pastor Mark Burns, a member of Pastors for Trump, who many are calling a confused Uncle Tom, dedicated the Florida golden 22-foot statue to Trump. According to Christians Against Christian Nationalism, Christian nationalism is not Christianity, and it can be defined as “a political ideology that seeks to merge Christian and American identities, distorting both the Christian faith and America’s constitutional democracy.”

Remember Trump only loves Gold!

Mario Salas
Mario Salashttps://saobserver.com/
Professor Mario Marcel Salas is a retired Assistant Professor of Political Science, having taught Texas Politics, Federal Politics, Political History, the Politics of Mexico, African American Studies, Civil Rights, and International Conflicts. He has served as a City Councilman for the City of San Antonio, and was very active in the Civil Rights Movement in SNCC for many years. He is also a life time member of the San Antonio NAACP. He has authored several editorials, op-eds, and writings.

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