Guest opinion: Alabama legislators are on the wrong side of history

Redistricting ensures that communities can participate in democracy and elect candidates of choice.

How ironic that this case is in the state of Alabama. If there is a ground zero in the fight for voting rights, it is in Alabama. Alabama was home to docking slave ships and then centuries later the Montgomery Bus Boycott; freedom rides; and, of course, historic marches for voting rights. Civil rights workers were beaten, maimed and killed in Alabama so that those in and out of the state could participate in our nation’s democracy.

When the U.S. Supreme Court directed Alabama to create two majority-minority districts, it did so because it knew that all voters have the right to elect candidates of choice, and Alabama’s current lines eliminated that right for Black voters. The court ordered the Legislature to draw two majority-minority districts, and it drew one. The second district the Legislature drew is only 36% Black voting age population, and the white voting age population is 64%.

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