58 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life was taken unjustly in Memphis while standing with Black sanitation workers who carried the weight of a city on their backs for poverty wages.

58 years later, in the same city, environmental racism is in plain sight. An Al data center sits in Boxtown, pumping illegal toxic emissions into the lungs of a community where cancer rates are already four times the national average.

And today, the Tennessee legislature voted to shatter the only majority-Black congressional district in the same state.

What saddens me is that many of these same people claim to follow Jesus.

Jesus would not have voted to strip a community of its access to the political process. Jesus would not have supported environmental racism causing cancer in vulnerable communities.

Jesus would not have protected those in power in their work of injustice. Jesus stood with the marginalized, those underneath Roman occupation, those who faced poverty controlled by systems of injustice.

Maps have always been a tool of exclusion. Now in 2026, they are using maps and lines once again, similar to redlining, to weaponize them against people and gain political power. This is injustice.