The supreme court trusts America not to be racist. I don’t

The Guardian ^ | Sun 3 May 2026 07.00 EDT | Jamil Smith

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Six supreme court justices handed down a ruling built, ostensibly, on the belief that the US has changed so much as to render the protections of the Voting Rights Act unnecessary. No one should be that gullible.

In 1901, the same year my great-grandfather was born, George H White rose to address the 56th United States Congress for the last time. He was a Republican congressman from North Carolina – the only Black member of the entire body. He was leaving because the state he represented had passed legislation making his re-election impossible. Reconstruction had already been undone. The powers that be had narrowed, then deferred, then erased the promise of multiracial democracy, written in the blood of Union soldiers and freed people alike.

White’s farewell was not defeat. It was prophecy. “This, Mr Chairman, is perhaps the Negro’s temporary farewell to the American Congress,” he said, “but let me say, phoenix-like, he will rise up some day and come again.” He was right. It took 64 years, a march across a bridge in Selma, and a president signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

White’s phoenix did not rise, though, because those in power could be trusted. It rose because our forebears forced America to act against its own instincts. The Voting Rights Act was not a gift or a concession. It was a constraint – imposed on a country that had proven, over a century, that it would not protect Black citizens’ right to vote without one.

On Wednesday, the supreme court removed that constraint.

The ruling in Louisiana v Callais did not formally strike down section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The statute remains. What it can do does not. But strip away the procedural language and the ruling rests on a single premise: that America has...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: commieshasthesads; datrayciss; democratshasthesads; fakenews; gerrymandering; grauniad; jamilsmith; redistricting; scotus; ucberkeley; votingrightsact; vra

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So sayeth the shameless racist.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Without “racism”, Jamil doesn’t have a job.

[proust]

Never been a better time to be an actual racist. You get to point and call anyone you don’t like a racist.

[proust]

comment was directed at Jamil of course

[NorthMountain]

If “Jamil Smith” wants America to not be racist, he needs to convince his fellow dark-skinned people to quit being the worst racists on the North American continent.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"Jamil". My what a dumb name. He should have at least added an "X" — "Jamil X".

What happened to that white boy who pretended to be Negro? He had a radio show. Used to wear Malcolm X glasses.

[norcal joe]

Without “racism”, Jamil doesn’t have a job.

Perfect response.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Talcum X

[Cold Heart]

SPLC is hiring.

[mass55th]

Racist Democrats are the ones who violated the immigration laws, in order to bring in millions of foreigners that could claim minority status, and used those minority illegals to manipulate the Voting Rights Bill in order to turn red districts into blue districts in States across the country. They’ve encouraged illegals to vote in every election, and have been the instigators of the fraud that has occurred for years. RATS never play fair. They’ll bastardize any Bill for their own advantage...and gutless Republicans let them get away with it for decades.

[ETCM]

Talcum-X

[HIDEK6]

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race qbefore the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

- Booker T. Washington

[rktman]

Jamil the racis’!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I trust Jamil to be racist.

[roving]

There are blacks that were elected in red districts. The only racism is in your imagination.

[ComputerGuy]

It’s difficult to deal with black females these days.

[Gnome1949]

Calling everyone a racist gives some blacks an excuse not to work hard to achieve personal goals.

I can’t get ahead in life and be treated fairly because of “Whitey.”

That excuse died many decades ago. Lots of successful black Americans have disproven that excuse.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s difficult to deal with black females these days.

If you want to destroy something, put a big, fat, angry black woman in charge.

[Vendome]

A black man who was birth certificate claims he is White is indeed irony.....for the purpose of this story

[Organic Panic]

“written in the blood of Union soldiers”

Golly. It’s almost as if the DNC had this talking point all ready for their media whores and the stupid latinx on SCOTUS all using that exact phrase at the same time.

Nah..... the press and wise latinas are independent.....