A Supreme Court Ruling Against the Black Community
The recent Supreme Court ruling Louisiana V. Callais, like Plessy V. Ferguson and Dredd Scott V. Sandford in the 19th century, decimated the rights of the African American community.
An article by Nikole Hannah-Jones for The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/magazine/voting-rights-act-reconstru…) describes how the Louisiana V. Callais ruling is compared to the 1891 case Plessy V. Ferguson that sanctioned Jim Crow in the South:
“The case that felled the Voting Rights Act was Louisiana v. Callais. Louisiana is the state where in 1896, in Plessy v. Ferguson, another superlatively conservative Supreme Court used the 14th Amendment to license segregation, setting off a race across the South to strip Black people of the franchise and codify their second-class citizenship...
...Now, Black representation may once again disappear in the South, where more than half of Black Americans live. This could lead to the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction. And just like then, what is at stake is no less than American democracy itself.”
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Angelo, you are absolutely correct. Time will tell.
Thanks Jean and Enrico! I appreciate both your comments.
Look next year at the representation in Congress and at state and local governments in the South. If the number of representatives of color declines, as predicted, watch to see if the number of racist laws increase. I have a bad feeling that it will.
What working class Trump supporters don't realize is that laws that negatively affect minority communities will also negatively affect them as well. Trump's policies are terrible for the working class. It was actually Black and Latino representatives that were fighting for policies to help the working class, since those policies also benefited minority communities. They're so caught up in the Fox News bubble that they got suckered into supporting Republican politicians that negatively affect them.
Sad news...
So true. We are going backwards. Shame on Louisiana.
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