Stacey Abrams Accuses Mike Johnson of Celebrating The 'Return of Jim Crow'

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Source: MEDIAite

May 17th, 2026, 8:45 pm


Stacey Abrams accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of celebrating “the return of Jim Crow to the South” after he commended the Supreme Court for ruling race-based gerrymandering violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Abrams ripped Johnson and the recent redistricting decisions during an interview on MS NOW’s The Weekend: Primetime on Sunday. The show played a clip of Johnson telling Fox News earlier in the day that the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that Louisiana’s congressional map violated the VRA was “long overdue” and was “bringing back fairness and certainty to the system.”

Co-Host Antonia Hylton then asked Abrams what she believed Johnson meant by that. “He’s saying it brings back 1964, 1963, 1892,” Abrams said, when “race neutral” laws made it harder for Black Americans to vote. “The race neutral laws that were in place prior to the Voting Rights Act said that you could have poll taxes and literacy taxes that diminished participation, but were race neutral,” Abrams said.

She said Johnson is from the South and should understand as well as anyone that “this is bollocks, that this is hogwash. They are very clear that race and partisanship sit side-by-side.”. Abrams continued, saying the “remarkably racist behavior” that was thwarted by the Voting Rights Act has now returned. “And so what he is celebrating is the return of Jim Crow to the South. And that is a terrible thing for America.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/stacey-abrams-accuses-mike-johnson-of-celebrating-the-return-of-jim-crow/

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1. Republicans can no longer refer to themselves as "the party of Lincoln," take credit for "freeing the slaves,"

and blame the "Democrat party" for the evils of Jim Crow and the KKK. That bit of political sophistry would require more hypocrisy than even Republicans are willing to swallow.

[GCG]

5. Well

The Republicans stopped being "the party of Lincoln", in 1965!

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6. Agree, the parties re-aligned on race in the mid to late '60s.

A number of northeastern Republicans joined Democrats to pass the voting and civil rights acts, while southern Dixiecrats were still clinging to their neo-confederate beliefs. Then Nixon came along with his Southern Strategy and completely changed the political landscape. Nevertheless, to this day, whenever Republicans are accused of supporting racist policies as a party, they'll trot out their "Lincoln freed the slaves and Democrats founded the KKK" bullshit.

[sakabatou]

8. That part of the Republican Party died with Nixon (Southern Strategy)

[OldBaldy1701E]

2. We really need to stop giving that slime ball attention.

That is what he craves. If we would just not acknowledge his worthless ass whenever anyone sees him around.

As well as burst out laughing every time he opens his mouth.

That would be nice.

[FakeNoose]

3. If Abraham Lincoln were to magically reappear today

... I don't think he'd even recognize this country or the Republican Party, the way things are now.

[Lovie777]

4. If President Lincoln did reappear today, the GQP would shoot him......................

If JC appeared the GQP would not believe JC thinking it's a Democratic Party's hoax.

[republianmushroom]

7. Little Micky is a real southern boy.