Fox News flamethrower Jesse Watters lit another media bonfire Thursday after telling black Americans they should start having more kids if they want more representation in Congress.
The conclusion came during a heated segment on The Five about redistricting and the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on Louisiana voting maps — a decision conservatives hailed as a win against race-based gerrymandering and liberals blasted as a rollback of civil-rights protections.
“I did some research on the Blacks, as Judge Jeanine so eloquently would say,” the Fox host cracked, tossing in a reference to former co-host Jeanine Pirro.
“Blacks, for 150 years, have only represented 10% to 15% of the American population,” Watters said. “That’s not that much. So if they want to have more seats, they gotta get in between the sheets.”
“Spanish, they’re coming north, they’re having tons of kids,” he added. “And at this point, they have almost the same amount of House seats as Blacks. The Hispanic Caucus is almost as big as the Black Caucus. So if you guys need to solve that problem, you know what you need to do.”
The exchange came as political warfare over congressional maps is reaching DEFCON 1 ahead of the next election cycle. After the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, Republican-led states have moved aggressively to redraw districts long shaped around racial voting patterns.
Conservatives argue the Constitution guarantees equal treatment — not race-conscious mapmaking designed to engineer outcomes. Critics, meanwhile, say dismantling majority-minority districts weakens Black voting power and hands Republicans an electoral edge.
But Watters bulldozed straight past the legal weeds and turned the issue into a blunt-force cultural argument: population equals political clout.
Not everyone at the table was buying it.
Harold Ford Jr. — the former Democratic congressman from Tennessee on the panel — tried steering the conversation back toward fairness in district drawing.
“I’m not arguing for more Black congressmen,” Ford said. “I’m arguing, just don’t draw districts that advantage a party.”
Watters fired right back.
“No, you’re just discriminating against whites,” he shot back.
And there it was: the entire modern redistricting war squeezed into a cable-news food fight lasting less than two minutes.
Republicans across the country have increasingly challenged race-based district maps, arguing they violate equal-protection principles and lock in Democratic gains. Democrats counter that without those districts, minority communities risk losing influence in Congress altogether.
Meanwhile, demographic shifts are already reshaping American politics. Hispanic populations have surged in states like Texas, Florida, Arizona and Nevada over the last two decades, giving Latino voting blocs growing influence in both parties. Black population growth, by contrast, has been slower nationally, particularly outside major urban centers.
Still, even some conservatives privately winced at Watters’ delivery — less “constitutional scholar,” more “guy yelling census data at a sports bar.”
Jesse says 'Blacks' need to get busy in bed if they want to multiply. I'm pretty sure that math is correct. pic.twitter.com/QYqztVKsfE
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