ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR RACISM!!!
Don’t believe the NYT wording. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 “prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the language minority groups.” This ruling doesn’t “weaken” or “gut” the Voting Rights Act.
It is consistent with it, and a resounding affirmation of the 14th Amendment. Note that the 3 Liberal justices dissented, saying that the ruling would “systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power.” In fact, all of the hysteria by Leftists focuses on some similar collectivist tribal argument, as if certain “minority” GROUPS have a privileged entitlement to elect a representative with a particular skin color or ethnicity. It’s a viewpoint straight out of the Dred Scott decision that informed the Confederacy’s defense of its slave system.
But this racist viewpoint is anti-Enlightenment and anti-American. America guarantees an INDIVIDUAL right to vote, not some primitive tribal “right” or “voting power.” The 14th Amendment guarantees EACH CITIZEN equal protection. This ruling affirms the “one-person-one-vote” principle, and nobody’s right to vote is compromised or restricted—in fact, only strengthened. So-called “voting power” rests with individuals, not groups.
The violent Leftist reaction to the ruling also affirms the fundamental racial/collectivist orientation of the Left and the Democratic Party (I deliberately chose the NYT article to demonstrate this). That political block sees every issue through a lens of race. But, MEMO to the Left: dark skinned people are INDIVIDUALS, each with a mind of their own, capable of deciding FOR THEMSELVES how to vote, just like every other person. They are not some homogenous colored herd with some collective brain that they must be told they must follow.
Don’t believe the way most of the press is characterizing this ruling. This decision is a great outcome.
