{"id":574240,"date":"2026-04-09T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574240\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:04:07","slug":"virginia-redistricting-the-role-of-klan-images-and-obama-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574240\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia redistricting: The role of Klan images and Obama quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"K2IJX43XCJAOHHSYEAGYNHF42I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">HAMPTON, Va. \u2014 Nearly everyone in the sanctuary at Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Temple raised a hand when Gaylene Kanoyton asked who had seen \u201cthe mailers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6O7JPLZBPBDDTCDE3RB5YTBRB4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The primarily Black audience at a town hall this week knew what she was referring to \u2014 ads using images of Klansmen in white hoods to warn against voting for Virginia\u2019s redistricting amendment and others falsely suggesting that former president Barack Obama and Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) want them to vote \u201cno\u201d on redrawing the state\u2019s political map to favor Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMPTON, Va. \u2014 Nearly everyone in the sanctuary at Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Temple raised a hand when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-574240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}