What do you think the black community's reaction will be to a vanishing number in Congress who look like them?

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14. this seems antithetical to the interests of black Americans

"What about creating competitive districts that would likely reduce the impact of the extreme edge of the Republican party and have an outsized positive impact on minorities even if less likely to give them representation that looks like them?"

An 'outsized positive impact' would seem like a hollow ideal for black Americans after the party just engineered a way around ensuring black representation in Congress.

That representation shouldn't be regarded as just a means to make up the white vote that goes to republicans. It should be a moral imperative to restore the means for that black presence at the table when their concerns are up for debate and money is being allocated.

It's not just some beneficence, it's about promises unfulfilled to a people who's rights are now under active attack by the government they help fund; not just about their representation, but their self-determination.