I’m not sure what the greatest lowlight of that embarrassing Charlie Foxtrot of a legislative hearing over new congressional district maps at the Louisiana State Capitol was. There were lots to choose from.

Gary Chambers’ six-minute insulting diatribe against “white men” – it’s on his TikTok if you want to find it; I’m not giving it a fresh airing here – might have been the worst moment in that building since Barbara Norton brought her nephew, rapper Hurricane Chris, to the Capitol so he could sing about wanting to have sex with Halle Berry.

But then there was Gary Carter calling Jay Morris a racist to his face because he drew up a congressional map which is about the most compact, non-gerrymandered thing we’ve seen in Louisiana in decades. Morris’ map doesn’t have any majority-black districts, which technically makes it a 6-0 map, but his 2nd District is more likely than not to be a Democrat-held seat and probably re-elects Troy Carter to Congress.

I don’t think the map, which comes from SB 116, is the one which will pass – at least, my understanding is that this week there will be a map advancing which focuses on combining North Baton Rouge and Orleans Parish into a district much in the way the previous 5-1 maps have.

And that’s what I’ve expected to see all along.

But for Jay Morris to have to listen to a mouthy brat like Gary Carter calling him a racist because he draws a map which would force Carter’s uncle to get a few white people to support him – something which he’s already been able to do – is illegitimate.

It’s disgusting. And it ought to be dealt with harshly.

I don’t know why my tax dollars are paying for the Legislative Black Caucus to have a state-funded employee at the Legislature. The Legislative Black Caucus discriminates against non-black people on the basis of race. Hilariously so, as it turns out – there is only one white Democrat in the Senate, that being the irritating leftist Jay Luneau, and a few years ago when he became the only honky still standing he asked if he could caucus with his black Democrat colleagues and he was told, essentially, “Kick rocks, cracka!”

If we’re going to do away with racial discrimination, which is what people like Gary Carter and Cleo Fields say we should, then I think it’s only fair that the Black Caucus take up a collection to pay for their legislative staffer and not impose that cost on the rest of us.

There was an idea put forth to zero-out all of Gary Carter’s appropriation money and distribute it to the rest of the Black Caucus in retaliation for his antics on Friday. That’s not the worst idea, in that somebody should give Carter a slap in the face he’ll remember for this jackassery, but why reward the rest of the Black Caucus who also acted like clowns on Friday?

They want a revolution in that building, well, let them pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor for it like the real revolutionaries did. Or at minimum, let them give up their pet projects in their districts that the rest of us are pretty sure don’t actually benefit the people of this state.

The Legislative Black Caucus is the product of a bunch of gerrymandered, apartheid legislative districts. Most of the members of that caucus don’t bother campaigning in white neighborhoods and in fact will practice open hostility to white people as a strategy for winning elections in their districts. They run around acting like there are bogeymen in Klan outfits behind every tree, but nobody practices open racism in Louisiana like these people do.

Not anymore.

Gary Chambers is even more racist than David Duke, if for no other reason than that Duke didn’t make the absurd argument that his race prevented him from being racist like Chambers does.

We are subsidizing this kind of racial division, and on Friday we saw the wages it pays.

Let’s not forget that we’re going through this process of drawing new districts because the Supreme Court told Louisiana that its 4-2 map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Yes, there are details in the story which make it more complicated than that, but the fact is that Louisiana has been told drawing districts on the basis of race – and you can’t draw a 4-2 map without a racial gerrymander; there is no region of the state large enough to comprise a congressional district which is majority black – is illegal.

We have to draw a new map, and we can’t carve out apartheid congressional districts like that “snake” – in Chief Justice John Roberts’ words – which Cleo Fields currently represents.

Caterwaul all you want, Democrats, but you’re getting a 5-1 congressional map. The only question is whether it’s Fields or Troy Carter who represents the one Democrat district.

And if the caterwauling continues, then it’ll be time to re-examine lots of things which don’t involve congressional maps.

Like whether anybody in the Legislative Black Caucus gets to chair a committee at that capitol. Or whether any of them ever get to pass a bill out of a committee again without a Republican co-sponsor. Or whether there is any money appropriated for their legislative districts beyond the truly needful things  that the Landry administration identifies. Or whether any of them ever see a dime again for the do-nothing NGO’s they all run.

They’re not revolutionaries. They’re grifters. Friday was a dog-and-pony show. It was a photo op, mugging for the cameras. And it was shameful.

We should be long past the point where we allow insults to the democratic process to go without consequences. If Gary Carter wants to call his white colleagues racists, then they ought to get their money’s worth.