A long-standing community activist and Democratic candidate to the U.S. Senate, He smoked a blunt while advocating legalization.
He is also a talker in his latest commercial. Chambers burns a Confederate flag as he discusses — and symbolically destroys — Jim Crow’s legacy.
Chambers holds an American flag, quoting it, and then replaces it with a Confederate one. “
He says, “Our system isn’t broken,” and sets the flag ablaze. “
The release of the ad coincides with the ongoing special session of the state legislature to redraw its political lines. Activists are campaigning for the expansion of majority-Black district in Louisiana, and Chambers led the rally on the steps at the Louisiana Capitol steps on Wednesday morning.
Lawmakers have until February 20 to redraw state’s congressional districts, as well as those of State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and Public Service Commission. Reports WWNO in New Orleans.
The public calls for legislators to draw congressional districts better representing the state’s Black population. Census data shows that nearly one-third of the state’s population is Black. However, only one of six state congressional districts has a majority minority population.
A second majority-Black congressional district would most likely lead to the loss of a safe Republican spot in Congress. This, WWNO points out, is not an easy sell for the GOP-led legislature.
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Chambers, as he watches his flag burn, notes the high levels of poverty and disenfranchisement in Black Americans.
He says, “It’s now that the Confederacy must be destroyed.” “
Chambers has a difficult task in his bid to succeed U.S. Senator John Kennedy, the 70-year old Republican incumbent.
These viral campaign ads are not original in substance but use tactics that political campaigns have relied on for decades.
