When legislatures draw lines that are discriminatory or gerrymandered, the will of voters is subverted and diminished.
When I was growing up, I would read about the struggle for civil rights and lament that my coming of age was in the 1980s and 90s, rather than in the 50s and 60s. My lingering question was whether I would have had the courage of the freedom fighters of that era. I wondered what I would have done to influence change.
