WATCH: Cory Booker Compares Redistricting Fight to Dred Scott and Jim Crow
Sen. Cory Booker appeared on MSNOW Saturday from a voting rights protest in Montgomery, Alabama, and delivered exactly the kind of dramatic, race-obsessed rhetoric that has become standard inside the modern Democrat Party.
Booker was in Alabama as thousands of activists rallied against recent redistricting decisions and Republican-backed congressional maps.
The demonstration, billed as part of a national day of action, drew civil rights activists and Democrat politicians to Montgomery as left-wing groups accused conservative states of weakening Black political representation.
But Booker did not simply criticize redistricting. He compared today’s political fight over congressional maps to some of the darkest moments in American history.
“I’m here in Alabama because my roots are here,” Booker said. “I’m here because I know very consciously I’m the descendant of slaves in this country.”
Booker then invoked infamous Supreme Court rulings such as Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Korematsu, claiming Americans in past eras did not accept “limitations of our democracy” but instead fought for “bolder freedoms.”
That comparison is outrageous.
The current redistricting debate is not slavery, nor is it Jim Crow. It is not a government forcing Americans into separate schools, denying basic citizenship, or placing Japanese Americans into internment camps.
The issue is whether states can draw congressional maps in a way that heavily considers race—and whether Democrats can continue treating certain districts as guaranteed political property.
The Supreme Court recently allowed Alabama Republicans to pursue a congressional map more favorable to the GOP after a lower court had blocked the plan, while broader redistricting fights continue across southern states ahead of the midterms.
Booker still framed the issue as an echo of the post-Reconstruction era.
“We see legislatures like this one here drawing congressional maps … to stop African-Americans from having a voice in Congress,” Booker claimed.
That statement reveals the Democrats’ entire strategy. They do not argue as if Americans are individual citizens with equal rights. They argue as if racial groups are entitled to specific political outcomes, specific districts, and specific numbers of representatives.
Booker even said estimates show “10 to 25” Black representatives could be lost, as if Congress is supposed to be organized by racial quota rather than voters choosing candidates in lawful districts.
When asked whether Democrats could still win the House despite GOP gerrymandering, Booker insisted the issue was not partisan.
“I’m here in Alabama not because of partisan politics,” Booker claimed. “I’m here because I want to save our Democratic system.”
That is absurd. Democrats have gerrymandered aggressively for years in states such as Illinois, New York, Maryland, and California. They only discover moral outrage when Republican legislatures use the same political tools against them.
Even the interview itself was chaotic. Loud rally noise, music, and speeches could be heard in the background as Booker tried to turn a redistricting dispute into a civil rights crisis.
The truth is simple: Democrats are panicking because the Supreme Court is no longer rubber-stamping every race-based political scheme.
Booker’s MSNOW appearance showed the left’s redistricting argument for what it really is—a desperate attempt to use America’s painful history to protect Democratic power in the present.
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