@Liberfach0 In a sane society you’d be jailed for spreading this toxic bullshit. They left a 75 page right wing white supremacist manifesto you gibbering dimwit.
Only because I have a little time, and guidance is needed.
Brandon, what you’re describing as “equality” ignores the reality of power, access, and history. Equality is not pretending the playing field magically leveled itself while the same structural barriers continue producing the same predictable outcomes.
If institutional racism were truly gone, states would not have moved at warp speed to declare 61 years of full citizenship is enough. And, Black communities would not still be fighting over voting access, district manipulation, school inequities, environmental dumping, policing disparities, housing discrimination, and economic exclusion generation after generation. Systems do not have to wear white hoods to produce unequal outcomes.
The original purpose of majority-Black districts was not to “give Black people privilege.” It was to stop the deliberate dilution of Black voting power after centuries of exclusion. Those protections were created under the Voting Rights Act because discrimination was documented, widespread, and intentional.
And respectfully, Brandon saying, “I’m Black, and I see no problem with this” is not evidence that the problem no longer exists. There were Black people opposed to civil rights marches, integration, voting rights protections, and affirmative action, too. Individual opinion does not erase collective reality.
Black Americans having more opportunity than previous generations is not the same thing as equality having been achieved. Progress does not mean the problem disappeared.
The issue is not whether racism exists in every individual heart. The issue is whether systems still produce racially predictable outcomes and whether political actors are restructuring power in ways that weaken Black representation while pretending race no longer matters.
History has shown repeatedly that the moment people begin declaring racism “mostly over” is often the moment protections begin disappearing. And when districts are redrawn in ways that consistently reduce Black political influence while consolidating power elsewhere, people have every right to question the motive, no matter how politely it is packaged.
Finally, in 2008, Black voters, alongside others, turned out in historic numbers to elect Barack Obama. That moment proved something many already knew and feared: when Black folks fully participate in democracy, the country moves closer to actually fulfilling its promises.
That is precisely why efforts to weaken the VRA intensified afterward. If Black political power were irrelevant, there would have been no relentless campaigns to gut voter protections, suppress turnout, close polling places, purge voter rolls, and redraw districts to dilute representation.
John Roberts did not spend years dismantling key protections of the VRA because racism disappeared. The GOP did not become obsessed with restricting access to the ballot because Black voting power no longer mattered.
“Never again” became the unspoken response to 2008, and ever since, they have worked overtime trying to turn the clock backward.
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@UAPReportingCnt Yes, they’ve investigated it because nothing about being in the military inculcates critical thinking. See: The Men Who Stared at Goats.