<p>The GOP has been in the new during this election cycle for attacking the rights of Woman, and Gay citizens, but there is also a growing body of evidence that the Republican party is also attacking minority communities. Last summer Gov. Rick Perry, yes the same Rick Perry that might have been your President in another universe, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/us/federal-court-calls-texas-voting-maps-discriminatory.html" title="Texas Redistricting">signed into law a redistricting scheme that has come been labeled as discriminatory.</a> The plan called for diluting minority votes by redistricting zones in such a way that minority voters were no longer the majority in their own districts. The Federal court's ruling basically orders Texas to fix the problems cited. Texas's attorney general plans to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.</p><br />
<p>And then I find this gem in the article. "Lawyers for Mr. Abbott argued that the maps were drawn to help Republicans maintain power but not to discriminate, and that drawers did not know where district offices were located." This sort of rhetoric really gets my blood boiling. Language can be used in such a way that a person can say a contradictory thing in the same statement without it sounding like a contradiction. Let me rephrase this nonsense for Mr. Abbot. </p><br />
<p><em>The White Male dominated Republican Party is trying to maintain power by diluting the voting power of Hispanic and Black voters who typically do not vote for the GOP. This is not racist because the Republican Party does not know the racial dsitributions of the communities that it represents. </em></p><br />
<p>With this new opaque rendering of the statement we are left with two alternatives, either the motives of the GOP are racist, or the Texas Republican Party is led by incompetent representatives who are not fit to serve the public trust. </p>
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