Getting back to an old beef of mine, I hate it when people suppose skin pigment and reproductive organs have magical powers of bonding those with similar physiology. Nancy Pelosi and I are white women, so if you’ve met Nancy, you know everything there is to know about me. The same applies to such strange circumstances as the side of a river on which people choose to live. Choosing to live on the west side could make you totally incomprehensible to somebody who bought a house on the other side. It is because farmers have a different since of justice than city dwellers, greedy rich people are out to destroy lazy poor people, and blacks and whites come up with different answers when putting 50-50 in decimal form, that we need district elections.

I get the idea about being able to nab your leader when he’s out mowing the lawn; but that doesn’t make sense in today’s gerrymanders. Redistricting is a tool for grabbing power, but we’re supposed to pretend we’re classist, racist, sexist, and all that to prove our ignorance of our pawn-like role in the political arena.

Cherokee County will hold a referendum in May to determine if the majority of voters would prefer to be represented by five districts, or continue to be represented by three districts and two commissioners elected at-large.