The Roberts Court majority may be pretending they don't know the Voting Rights Act is what ended Jim Crow and their decision to gut it is license to take us back ("again") to stealing power from Black voters, but Americans do:
Without naming your profession, what’s something you say a hundred times a day? I’ll go first:
“We’re so fucked.”
Black voter participation soared right after the VRA passed in 1965.
But not until 1992, after Congress strengthened the VRA to require majority-minority districts, did we start getting closer to proportional Black representation in Congress.
Because Black votes finally counted more in the South.
The ballot box still matters. But the ballot box alone won’t save us.
Happening now at #NN26: @anatosaurus.bsky.social, @tarabuss.bsky.social, Fenika Miller and Scot Nakagawa on elections under authoritarianism and what it takes to defend our freedoms as MAGA rewrites the rules to hold onto power.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court’s MAGA Justices just green-lit discrimination against Black voters.
By taking away key protections from the Voting Rights Act, the white supremacist faction is imposing Jim Crow 2.0 so they can control our elections and seize more power.
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