So, on one hand, what you’re seeing is the power of gerrymandering to create a legislature that is not representative of the people, that is not one person/one vote, but instead is that extreme partisan gerrymandering, so that you have the needs of the people not being able to be addressed by that legislature. Talk about the significance of what’s taken place over the last week with the overwhelmingly white Legislature expelling these two legislators.ĬAROL ANDERSON: You are seeing a convergence of so many of the multiple streams in American society right there. So, you have both Justins, the youngest Black lawmakers in the Tennessee House of Representatives, being reinstated to the Tennessee Legislature, after leading, with Gloria Johnson, a protest against guns on the floor of the House after the Nashville school massacre. Welcome back to Democracy Now!, Professor Anderson. Her new documentary, named after a Langston Hughes poem, is titled I, Too. She’s also the author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy and the book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. The paperback edition has just been published. AMY GOODMAN: To talk more about the debate over gun control, Republican attacks on democracy across the country and much more, we’re joined by Carol Anderson, professor at Emory University, author of The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.
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