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Two starkly differing views of the contemporary role of race in American politics emerged in full view in the Supreme Court’s wide-ranging new ruling on federal voting rights law. Both views start with the same premise, but end up in markedly different conclusions. Again, the Court is seen to be as deeply divided on the way out of the racial bind as the entire country may still be.

The opinion deals with an issue that has been considered so difficult that the Court has left it open repeatedly, including five times in the past quarter-century. The array of opinons finally resolving the question is further evidence of its complexity, both as a core legal question and as a wider cultural inquiry….

Two starkly differing views of the contemporary role of race in American politics emerged in full view in the Supreme Court’s wide-ranging new ruling on federal voting rights law. Both views start with the same premise, but end up in markedly different conclusions. Again, the Court is seen to be as deeply divided on the way out of the racial bind as the entire country may still be.

The opinion deals with an issue that has been considered so difficult that the Court has left it open repeatedly, including five times in the past quarter-century. The array of opinons finally resolving the question is further evidence of its complexity, both as a core legal question and as a wider cultural inquiry….

Two starkly differing views of the contemporary role of race in American politics emerged in full view in the Supreme Court’s wide-ranging new ruling on federal voting rights law. Both views start with the same premise, but end up in markedly different conclusions. Again, the Court is seen to be as deeply divided on the way out of the racial bind as the entire country may still be.

The opinion deals with an issue that has been considered so difficult that the Court has left it open repeatedly, including five times in the past quarter-century. The array of opinons finally resolving the question is further evidence of its complexity, both as a core legal question and as a wider cultural inquiry….

We'll see.

On the flip side, something always itched at me re: the 1982 amendments to Section 2. They resulted in a huge increase in the members of the CBC. But has that necessarily been a boon to black folks, in the main? LOL. I recall statements on this blog basically wishing they'd all tumble off the edge of Niagra Falls in a small boat. Quantity has not mean quality, and maybe the Obama paradigm is that we start thinking strategically, building coalition if we can't be “safe” in special districts…in essence, maybe it would force us to spawn a generation of little Baracks–which is happen anyway-rather than old school Gus Savage throwbacks, or folks who'd still be kowtowing to ministers for money but for Section 3?

Who knew the biggest idiots to buy into the “Obama was elected so racism is over” fallacy would be members of the supreme court.

Hopefully Obama will introduce election reform legislation by 2012…

If voting districts have to clear their election law changes with Eric Holder …

well, let's just say that we already know how the (mostly conservative) Supremes will rule on this one.