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I'll give you the important excerpts.
This shows that the electoral map was redrawn as to screw over majority black districts (cutting off the strongest fundraising bases of the reps of those district), while going and either leaving the districts of white reps alone or expanding them and they also did this in secret as well.
This change in voter ID laws will make it so that it is more difficult for groups who would vote Democrat as the list of IDs are extremely small and many of those voters who don't have IDs (and many of whom vote for Democrats) must "travel at their own expense, produce their birth certificate, and in many cases pay a fee to get an ID." The fact that many of these people, such as the poor, may not have the money to get travel and pay the fee for the ID will make it harder for them to vote.
This is also going to happen in North Carolina (NC voter ID bill moving ahead with Supreme Court ruling :: WRAL.com) and Mississippi (Voting Rights Act ruling clears path for Mississippi voter ID use in 2014 (updated) | gulflive.com).
No, it shows that districts were redrawn to screw over blacks politicians. It's the other side of the coin with Section 5, which was used to screw over white politicians.
That's politics, not racism. Voters cannot be effected negatively by redistricting.