Republicans who preach colorblindness and rail against ‘identity politics’ just advanced a map explicitly designed to eliminate Jim Clyburn’s seat—the highest-ranking Black member of Congress. They’re doing it right after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, seizing the moment to erase one of the most powerful Black voices in American politics. So much…
Justice Samuel Alito promised the Court hadn’t overturned its 2023 decision protecting Black voters in Alabama—then cleared the way for the exact racially discriminatory map that decision rejected. Now one majority-Black district vanishes and a Black congresswoman’s seat goes up for grabs, all months before midterms. The Court isn’t a neutral arbiter; it’s a Republican…
Republicans spent decades swearing they’re colorblind and that racism is history—until the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, and Tennessee GOP immediately dismantled the state’s only majority-Black district in Memphis, where MLK was killed. They couldn’t even wait weeks to reveal their true intentions, proving every claim about racial neutrality was a lie. They…