Mike Johnson shrugs off Black voters' concerns about GOP gerrymandering: 'This brings back fairness'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 17 May 2026 11:52 EDT


House Speaker Mike Johnson said that attempts to redraw his home state of Louisiana’s congressional lines, which could give Republicans an advantage at the risk of depriving Black voters of representation, was about fairness.

In conversation with Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday, Johnson was asked what his message was to Black Americans after the Supreme Court delivered a severe blow to the Voting Rights Act.

“The Supreme Court issued a long-awaited opinion, and I think it was long overdue, and they stated the obvious, that drawing congressional lines must be fair,” Johnson said. “You cannot draw lines on the basis of race, and that's what was done in Louisiana.”

Last month, the Supreme Court handed down Louisiana v Callais, which called the state’s inclusion of a second majority-Black congressional district an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”. The ruling all but killed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 law that prohibited laws that discriminate on the basis of race.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-johnson-black-voters-gerrymandering-b2978177.html

[Solly Mack]

1. Racist defends racism.

[efhmc]

2. Yes fairness for you, you stupid white guy.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. He better be careful. Soon he'll surpass his boss as the biggest liar in American government.

If he looks too effective at it, one wonders. Will DJ get jealous?

[dalton99a]

4. Because Jim Crow was about fairness.

[JoseBalow]

5. Shrugging shit off is his tired old schtick

I hope his dick falls off

[surfered]

6. Well, Trump took his balls.

[Quanto Magnus]

7. They're nicely displayed

on the fireplance mantle

[Stargazer99]

8. The white man is afraid he will lose dominance and the crap they pulled on the less powerful will be pulled on them

If the white race becomes less in number than the other races that politics will take the white dominance away
That could explain why this anti abortion crap came up. Did I strike a nerve?

[tulipsandroses]

9. Typical racist sentiment. If a black person benefits, it means it's unfair to white people

Yep. Doesn’t matter that we are the least represented almost anywhere.

[Buddyzbuddy]

10. Remember this in January and put his arse in the basement and at the back of the bus.

G'damn crackr *ss, smurf, M'FER.

[AZ8theist]

11. I'm sure he believes black people are only 3/5ths of a white person.

RELEASE MIKE JOHNSONS GRINDR PROFILE!!!

FUCKING RACIST, HYPOCRITICAL SCUMBAG.