Having lived the rise in Black political power across the South enabled by the VRA, Robinson worries he is now a witness to its dramatic demise after the Supreme Court sharply limited the last vestige of the landmark law often called the crown jewel of the civil rights movement.
I’m not trying to diminish the efforts to build up the south, but truly, what was accomplished if it was all hinged and balanced so precariously on a single court ruling? That is the myth of progress in the USA. Nothing has fundamentally changed, we just put police tape around certain things. It turns out, fascists can just walk under that, or cut it.
If our progress is not locked in place and hard to undo, it is not progress. It’s like we’re balancing on a tight rope over the Grand canyon when we could be building a fucking bridge. This system is non functional.