In 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the future of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Act). Their ruling will have profound effects on our country. While reading a column by a leading light of the Left, I got immense clarity on this issue.
First, let me be clear the Act was a significant turning point in America. The Act clarified the 14th Amendment ratified in 1868 making clear that America’s former slaves had rights equal to all other Americans. If their voting rights were impaired, then the value of their rights were diminished. The Act addressed that.
Leave it to the Left of today to misinterpret the entire matter. In his column Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic – The New York Times Jamelle Bouie defines clearly for me how misguided his thinking is on this matter.
In the third paragraph he provides me with great clarity but not in the manner he intended. He says this, “In Louisiana, as is true in much of the Deep South, voting is highly polarized by race. Black people tend to vote for Democrats, white people for Republicans. It’s in this environment that Black voters, a distinct and coherent minority, are shut out of political power unless they constitute a majority — or close to a majority — of a congressional district.”
Mr. Bouie asserts here that a black person must represent black people to truly be represented. But he turns history on its head. In speaking of the Act, he skips over the fact that the Deep South at the time was almost exclusively run by white Democrats. Since the Civil War, Democrats had been running the place and for the next century because of who had led the North in the Civil War? Republicans. The Dems were the ones who suppressed the rights of blacks for all that time.
Like the falsehood foisted on Americans that Nazis are on the right (you know — National Socialists), Democrats like to claim they gave us the Act.
There is no question that President Lyndon Johnson was the driving force behind passing it. Yet the resistance came from the Democrats. The bill passed in the Senate 77-19. The 19 voting against it were 17 Dems and 2 Repubs. In the House, the bill passed 333-85 with 61 Dems and 24 Repubs voting against. Overall, in the two chambers, 74% of Dems voted for the act with 85% of the Repubs.
The country has changed immensely in the past 60 years. The South has become the fastest growing area of the country. Northern and Western white liberals believe that the whites in the South are still deeply bigoted against blacks. Many have visions of them wearing white hooded outfits and burning crosses. That is because these white liberals see themselves as the righteous protecters of black people.
Reading Mr. Bouie’s paragraph above, I got clarity of what the Dems are doing with their majority/minority Congressional districts. They are “ghettoizing” black people in these districts and telling them to support Democrats, or they will not have representation in Congress. They are saying blacks cannot get proper representation from whites.
The attitudes have changed because of multiple reasons. Not only have the parties flipped in many of these areas from Dems to Repubs, but more and more black voices are speaking out against being on the Democrat plantation. That’s because the Dems have stuffed blacks into inferior school districts because of the Dems fealty to public school teachers’ unions. They have allowed millions of illegal immigrants to flood the country and either take jobs typically taken by blacks and/or compete against blacks for wages. The Dems solution: create ridiculously high minimum wage levels that cause businesses to eliminate the entry level jobs blacks – particularly black youth – need to climb the economic ladder.
The most interesting factor of these forced majority/minority districts is the Dems are saying they cannot accurately represent black people since many of these districts are in plurality Democrat registration areas. And that is the truth because so many blacks are offended by the Leftist agenda adopted by the Dems across America. They are creating these charades where they put a black face in the position of representing the blacks where all they are really doing is filing a spot that supports the Democrat leadership that then supports an agenda that is anathema to the black population.
A perfect example of this is that Byron Donalds, a black Congressman from Florida, got elected in a district that has 5.9% of its voters who are black. Maybe that is because he ran as a Republican. He is now running for governor of Florida where 14.5% black. He doesn’t seem to need a majority/minority voting district.
The best thing the justices could do is junk this anachronistic system that treats blacks or any other minority as if the only way they can win a seat in Congress is with a handicap. Wouldn’t it be great to have a race blind country?
