The United States has masked racial gerrymandering with political factors for as long as gerrymandering has been in use. This function has the power to unfairly change the color of a state and completely misrepresent huge populations. In Angela Davis’ Women, Race and Class: An Activist Perspective she details the inequalities of women and people of color. She gives many examples alluding to this obvious oppression of people in the United States. This includes the lack of voting laws for these groups. Even when Angel Davis was in her prime people were thrown in prison for trying to help someone pass a literacy test. If you were a women at all you would be thrown in prison for just trying to vote at all. Angela Davis herself was arrested for
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Since it’s creation we have been oppressing people and taking away their human rights. As time has passed oppression has evolved itself, as Angela Davis says “and it was true in those days; those were some of the ways in which women were oppressed. (Angela Davis, Social Protest Pg. 23) The dictionary definition of oppression is as follows; Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment. Now I would assume everyone can agree on the oppression of minorities and women before the woman and civil right movements. These are the worst years of American history when it comes to oppression the years of slavery endured and decades of strict gender roles. As time continued to pass and laws changed and social outlooks began to change oppression changed with it. Although slavery has been abolished and woman can do something other than raise children and work in the house, we can still see the unjust treatment. African Americans still had to be wary of wrongful imprisonment or worse face an angry lynch mob as well as dealing with segregation and living in a world where they were not welcome. Women on the other hand had to fight the idea of being a “woman” almost like they were a helpless baby who needs a man. Like how Angela Davis gives us the example of men using the excuse of helping women into a carriage because they cannot themselves. Their argument is if you can’t do that then you shouldn’t have a say in who are leaders or …show more content…
Not only does it create uneven voting powers, like in 2012 when the Democratic nominee Barack Obama won his election as president and Democrat Sherrod Brown was elected in Ohio (a predominantly democratic state) by 325,000 votes but Ohio was still a Republican state with a 60 - 39 supermajority even though they had way less votes. This is solely because of how the republican party drew the districts so specifically to their advantage.(David Daley, NPR.org) So we know that it is being done clearly because we can look at the numbers and logically just know that those numbers don’t work out.. Now how could that function of our government be used to target a specific group of people? Well first of the United States Census offers all of the information the individuals drawing the lines would ever need, including your race and where you live. With just this information and the ability to draw the districts you could create major changes to the political battle. Another function that has been corrupted in recent years is the idea of majority minority districts. These districts have been implemented to try and combat gerrymandering, but it has only worked against that minority. Although some good may have come from them, now instead it works to oppress them further because those districts can now be drawn into other
Since it’s creation we have been oppressing people and taking away their human rights. As time has passed oppression has evolved itself, as Angela Davis says “and it was true in those days; those were some of the ways in which women were oppressed. (Angela Davis, Social Protest Pg. 23) The dictionary definition of oppression is as follows; Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment. Now I would assume everyone can agree on the oppression of minorities and women before the woman and civil right movements. These are the worst years of American history when it comes to oppression the years of slavery endured and decades of strict gender roles. As time continued to pass and laws changed and social outlooks began to change oppression changed with it. Although slavery has been abolished and woman can do something other than raise children and work in the house, we can still see the unjust treatment. African Americans still had to be wary of wrongful imprisonment or worse face an angry lynch mob as well as dealing with segregation and living in a world where they were not welcome. Women on the other hand had to fight the idea of being a “woman” almost like they were a helpless baby who needs a man. Like how Angela Davis gives us the example of men using the excuse of helping women into a carriage because they cannot themselves. Their argument is if you can’t do that then you shouldn’t have a say in who are leaders or …show more content…
Not only does it create uneven voting powers, like in 2012 when the Democratic nominee Barack Obama won his election as president and Democrat Sherrod Brown was elected in Ohio (a predominantly democratic state) by 325,000 votes but Ohio was still a Republican state with a 60 - 39 supermajority even though they had way less votes. This is solely because of how the republican party drew the districts so specifically to their advantage.(David Daley, NPR.org) So we know that it is being done clearly because we can look at the numbers and logically just know that those numbers don’t work out.. Now how could that function of our government be used to target a specific group of people? Well first of the United States Census offers all of the information the individuals drawing the lines would ever need, including your race and where you live. With just this information and the ability to draw the districts you could create major changes to the political battle. Another function that has been corrupted in recent years is the idea of majority minority districts. These districts have been implemented to try and combat gerrymandering, but it has only worked against that minority. Although some good may have come from them, now instead it works to oppress them further because those districts can now be drawn into other