--- title: Districts for Americans, Not Races – Daily Update May 10, 2026 description: canonical_url: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/districts-for-americans-not-races-daily-update-may-10-2026 language: en-US date: 2026-05-11T10:27:00Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/districts-for-americans-not-races-daily-update-may-10-2026. Schema.org structured data included at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. markdown-tokens: 1374 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/districts-for-americans-not-races-daily-update-may-10-2026. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Structured data** as JSON-LD may be found at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ![Louisiana State Capital](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/daily_update/2026/may/may11/may112026-article.png) Turns out congressional districting is not just a black and white issue. This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Monday, May 11, 2026. Last week the Supreme Court ruled against Lousiana’s race-based congressional map, declaring the majority-Black districts constituted “racial gerrymandering.” At the heart of the issue was the 6th Congressional district for Louisiana – which was actually created just a few years ago for the exact same reason as to why it was it was just shut down – a deliberate and very sketchy district that stretched for 200 miles to concentrate the Black vote in a Black candidate who was always going to be a Democrat. In response, Louisiana almost immediately started work on redistricting. One plan brings majority black districts down to one – another eliminates them almost entirely. Tennessee on Friday immediately eliminated the 9th District – again a majority black district – and spread it out over three other districts. If all this seems confusing to you – it should – because from elementary school on we are taught that we are represented in Congress by the fact that we are Americans – not white, black, brown or any other skin color you might care to name. The idea of lumping people into districts based on the color of their skin is not only racist, but it flies in the face of everything civil rights activists have stood for – that we are Americans first, that no one in our country should be denied, nor elevated, because of the color of his or her skin. In her dissent read from the bench, Justice Elana Kagan – joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson – [stated](https://msmagazine.com/2026/04/29/elena-kagan-voting-rights-act-supreme-court-dissent-callais-v-louisiana/): Members of the racial minority can still go to the polls and cast a ballot. But given the State’s racially polarized voting, they cannot hope—in the way the State’s white citizens can—to elect a person whom they think will well represent their interests. How absurd. Blacks in America should feel insulted that Justice Kagan – and every other Democrat – think so lowly of Blacks that they have to be given special chances – and special districts – in order to get a Black person elected. But then again, they also think that Blacks are not smart enough to get an ID for voting – so their outrage should surprise no one. For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample. 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