Republicans’ redistricting maps are motivated entirely by race – not politics | Michael Harriot

There has been a subtle campaign to redefine racism by the intent and not the effects of discriminatory actions, even as gerrymandered maps diminish the power of Black voters

Although the phrase All politics is local" is usually attributed to Tip O'Neill Jr, a former speaker of the US House of Representatives, the aphorism probably originated in the February 1932 Associated Press column Politics at Random", when the Washington bureau chief, Byron Price, wrote: All politics is local politics." As valid as Price's summarization of inside-the-Beltway politics may be, there is probably a more accurate way to describe the All American sport of civic power-brokering:

All politics is racial.

Michael Harriot is a writer and author of the upcoming book Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America