Fedrick Ingram: Crowded ballots aren’t chaos. They’re Black political power.

To the casual observer, the upcoming Primary Election ballot in North Miami-Dade and South Broward counties looks like a game of political musical chairs played at hyperspeed. Since U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson’s historic announcement that she will not seek re-election, a massive political cascade has been triggered. State Senators are running for Congress, state representatives are vying for the Senate, and a wave of new and familiar faces is stepping up to fill the resulting vacancies on School Boards, County Commissions and municipal Councils. The immediate, cynical narrative from the pundit class is predictable: It’s opportunistic. It’s excessively political. It’s a mad dash for power. But that diagnosis completely misreads the structural reality of Black politics in Florida. What we are witnessing in the 24th Congressional District is not a display of unchecked personal ambition. It is the predictable consequence of a voting map designed to constrict Black electoral opportunity. For