Well, howdy there, internet people, it's bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about the party of Jim Crow.

As Republicans gerrymander majority black districts out of existence all over the South,

many are calling it Jim Crow 2.0. So for context sake, Jim Crow refers to the system of laws,

practices, and social norms in the United States that enforce racial segregation and discrimination

against black people, mainly in the South, from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s.

People will argue over what systems of control really made up Jim Crow, but the lingering effects

are still felt today. So Jim Crow 2.0 is seen as a resurgence of that. It seems as though this has really

struck a nerve with some in the Republican Party, because even though this isn't a term I've used

on the channel, I was treated to this email. Quote, Republicans are not the party of Jim Crow. This is not the party of Jim Crow.

Not is in all capital letters, and it's accompanied by an image that has portraits of four black

congressmen. Okay. Let me just start by saying, I know you straight up stole this whole email idea from

Senator Mike Lee of Utah because he posted the exact same thing to his social media. The congressmen are

four Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Cool. I get it. You've got a black friend.

The images are of representatives Byron Donald's of Florida, Wesley Hunt of Texas, John James of Michigan, and Burgess Owens of Utah. Cool. Give me a fifth. There are more than

200 Republican representatives in the House. Four is a weird number to stop at. Why not five or ten?

Because there isn't a fifth, right? There's just those four. Less than two percent of the

Republican caucus in the House is black. Somewhere between 13 and 14 percent of the U.S. population

is black, but only 2 percent of Republicans in the House.

More than 90% of House Republicans are white.

Weird.

...