We Can’t Wait Another 80 Years to Fix It

You cannot use the Constitution to remedy anti-Black racism, the Roberts Court says – in fact, if you do, you are the real racist; but you can totally engage in racial discrimination against non-white minorities as long as you pretend it’s all about partisanship. This decision returns the country to the situation before the Second Reconstruction that was codified in the 1960s civil rights legislation by allowing for systematic racial discrimination intended to entrench white dominance based on facially neutral laws.

— “Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile,” Democracy Americana

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