Unfortunately, this is not the first time the bodies of people of color in America have been used to inflate white political power. From the earliest days of the republic, the Three-Fifths Clause of the Constitution allowed for the partial counting of slaves in determining a state’s delegation in the House of Representatives while denying the franchise to all blacks, free and enslaved. While we have progressed from that painful chapter of America’s history, the question still remains: Has our country learned from our wicked past? Prison gerrymandering exploits black and brown bodies to amplify white voices. That practice was wrong 200 years ago, and it is wrong today.