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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The struggle continues

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The struggle continues:

The struggle continues

Fred Klonsky
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”  -- William Faulkner 
Yesterday 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.