#jimcrow

https://www.djoinerbooks.com/lingering-social-wounds-of-the-jim-crow-era/

We may very well need some magic to overcome a dark force like Jim Crow, and the Democrats are not fit for this task. While they are masters of illusion, they are not wizards of opposition - preserving the Union is more central to their goals than advancing liberation from what makes the union perpetually imperfect. We hear from many Democrats and left-leaning “progressives” of the need for a Third Reconstruction. There can’t be a so-called Third Reconstruction without there first being a first and final deconstruction of the entire U.S. polity in its current state. This deconstruction must include the evisceration of Democrat party-aligned neoliberal think tanks and capitulating non profits/civil society organizations who still believe that a broken system can be fixed or tinkered with to deliver collective liberation. The system is bad, the system that purports to fight the system is even worse because it upholds the lie that is “America” while lying to themselves and the masses - a sadistic case of double duplicity.

In this context, the painful proximity of the Civil Rights Era and the Jim Crow abuses its reforms worked to end should be clear. And so the Roberts Court decision to effectively neuter Section 2 of the VRA, arguing that Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district is racially discriminatory—a ruling rooted in a view-from-nowhere, colorblind vision of race—lands as both profoundly unjust and historically illiterate. That it comes at a time when the Trump administration and wider MAGA movement are launching a frontal assault on the multicultural democracy built on the back of the reforms of the 1960s and 1970s threatens to plunge the country into a Neo-Jim Crow period of rights abuses and anti-democratic discriminations.