Did Supreme Court Overturn Voting Rights Act To Promote Equality?

So it seemed to the supporters of maintaining the Voting Rights Act provision that laws that no longer apply should remain in force to forever punish the descendants of officials who practiced discrimination. That is utter nonsense.

After nearly 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the original Voting Rights Act into law, the nation has been moving toward a more just society, where a person of color can take office as president.

A central question that the court had to answer was: when does justice arrive for all Americans if institutional injustice does not exist any longer? If racism in voting practices no longer exists, then what conduct is being monitored?

The U.S. Supreme Court has now removed this law’s provision which has been used as a useful tool for liberals who seek office and want to drum up the ghosts of past injustices, now long buried, in order to get elected. That law cannot be used because the rationale for the law’s unconstitutional provision is null and void. This means liberals cannot use it against conservative or Republican candidates to gain an advantage in seeking office.

In order for the nation to move forward, it must stop embracing the ghosts of the past. If the nation has become largely color blind in its voting practices, it should be celebrated not viewed with derision by liberals. Someone should tell the NAACP and other civil rights activists, the sky is not falling. Just ask the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice.

Image: President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King, Jr; Date:6 August 1965; source: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum; Author: Yoichi R. Okamoto; public domain