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Life-hacking democracy: Hofeller had manually entered "%18_ap_blk" into nearly every draft of his mapping software when he mapped North Carolina's districts; "

Life-hacking democracy: Hofeller had manually entered "%18_ap_blk" into nearly every draft of his mapping software when he mapped North Carolina's districts; "%18_ap_blk" is a formula that shows the number of African American citizens of voting age in each district He made a custom software program already in the 1970s to disenfranchise blacks. (From Wikipedia.)

bsanr2 7y ago
One wonders what the monetary value of that disenfranchisement has been over the years. Will we ever broach that issue?
- tomrod 7y ago
  Is this what is called reparations?
  - jacobush 7y ago
    Usually that is referring to reparations for slavery. (But it could include gerrymandering too IMHO. It's something perpetrated by the state against an ethnic group.)