He spent 60 years building Black political power. He sees a wipeout coming.
Having lived the rise in Black political power across the South enabled by the VRA, Robinson worries he is now a witness to its dramatic demise after the Supreme Court sharply limited the last vestige of the landmark law often called the crown jewel of the civil rights movement.
an erosion brought about in no small part by Clarence Thomas.
Which. You'd think he, of all people, would understand the benefit of the VRA and protecting the rights of people exactly like him. Maybe he just placed it's value somewhere beneath a yact ride.
Thomas got there thanks to their work and then slammed the door shut behind him
I hope I live long enough to witness him getting spent like the token he is.
Clarence Thomas is a race traitor, in the most fundamental sense of the term
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Frustrating reading. They achieved so much, with little violence.
The people in power just had to push past fair.
I'm not trying to diminish the efforts to build up the south, but truly, what was accomplished if it was all hinged and balanced so precariously on a single court ruling? That is the myth of progress in the USA. Nothing has fundamentally changed, we just put police tape around certain things. It turns out, fascists can just walk under that, or cut it.
If our progress is not locked in place and hard to undo, it is not progress. It's like we're balancing on a tight rope over the Grand canyon when we could be building a fucking bridge. This system is non functional.