The struggle continues
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| Fred Klonsky |
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” -- William FaulknerYesterday will go down as a day of infamy in U.S. history.
The Supreme Court ruling, gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the failure of Congress to respond, sets back the struggle for racial equality in this country by some 50 years. The decision will stand, along with previous rulings like Dred Scott, Plessy and Plessy v. Ferguson as another official tribute to institutionalized white supremacy protected faithfully, if inconsistently, by the highest court in the land.