During the hundred years of Jim Crow, people of color were blocked from voting in a hundred different ways. From time to time leaders like President Grant would attempt to enfranchise non-whites by passing laws and amendments. For racist reasons, the laws and amendments ended up warped, ignored, circumvented or blocked in many places.
Something similar is going on today. Republican voter suppression and gerrymandering looks like racism, and no doubt that's the case in some instances, but most Republicans are not blocking black or brown voters because of their skin color. Most Republicans are not particularly racist. The Republican goal is to suppress Democrats. We--and our courts--ought to face that. It's an attack on democracy itself.
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