People are expressing their outburst over what Trump is spewing
out of his mouth. Most are talking about his radical malicious views; his
continuous hatred toward Muslims and Immigrants. While we agree with you all
TRUMP IS CRAZY out of his mind we want to shed light on what is going on in the
“real world”….. the world of policy and the Supreme Court. Trump has taken over
all of the newspaper outlets and he has somehow invited himself in our home on
our televisions with our permission. While Trump has taken over media the
Supreme Court has been going to work on two MAJOR cases that can affect United
States citizens even more than Trump! The first case we will discuss here deals with one person one vote. The main question before the court in the case of Evenwel v. Abbott is
who should be counted in voting districts……all residents or eligible residents?
What’s the difference you might ask? All residents include
everyone who lives in the area outlined by the district. “Eligible Residents”
on the other hand are people who are deemed fit to vote. So whom does that
exclude? Unauthorized immigrants, felons, current prisoners, children, authorized
immigrants who are here legally but not allowed to vote.
This shouldn’t matter much right? Or better yet you might be
asking yourself “what does that have to do with me?” EVERYTHING. Look in your
community, lets use the urban communities for example, who are the residents of
urban communities? Now ask yourself are all the residents in urban communities
“eligible” under the definition we just gave? This law has the power to shift
the country with the change of ONE word “All” to “Eligible”. Urban communities
will shift, as they will lose their district numbers because the populations in
the community encompass MOST of the folks who are deemed “ineligible”.
Let us break this down for you even further since you all
were so concerned about Trump and his insidious statements……..If the Supreme Court
votes in favor of “Eligible Residents” this will shift the power dynamics
increasing the amount of republican voters and decreasing the amount of democratic
voters. It wont matter how CRAZY Trump is….If districts are being reorganized
to disqualify “ineligible” voters then Republicans will have higher numbers
since most people who are deemed “ineligible” associate themselves with the
democratic party.
Lets take this a step further….. what group of people are
included in “eligible voters”. What they mean are non-WHITE voters. Texas is
proposing that their voters of color do not matter especially because they can’t
vote anyway so why should they be counted in the population?
This is what Social policy looks like. Breaking down the
issue to the core and figuring out how major case decisions and policies will
affect the country.
We live in a country that continues to denounce the humanity
of people of color and people in vulnerable positions. This case is asking us
NOT to count the amount of children in our communities which will the shift the
amount of funding our children will get for education. What’s even more
disappointing is that we have been spending most of our time looking at TRUMP
when Trump is no different from the lawyers who are bringing this case before
the court. While we are outraged by Trump’s remarks, we should show the same
outrage for the current case amongst the Supreme Court, which can alter
democracy indefinitely.
It is time to wake up………….pay attention to what matters..........and when you wake up....I hope you STAY WOKE.
To check out more about the one person one vote article go
here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/us/politics/supreme-court-to-hear-arguments-on-one-person-one-vote.html?_r=0
-Social Change Agents Team
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