The Voting Rights Act and the Art of Phony Outrage
I thought the best thing to do about this issue was give it a week or so, come back and see how I feel about it. Anyone who knows me well – particularly any of my students – know that I am not particularly fond of the U.S. voting machine in the first place. In the Black community, the significance of U.S. elections is even more of an illusion. So last week when the Supreme Court eliminated a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, I was neither surprised nor outraged. On June 25th the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the map that determines which states must get federal permission before they change their voting…
