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  "path": "/articles/we-believe-that-combating-racism-is-the-real-racism",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-30T17:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.mcsweeneys.net",
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    "Black Republican",
    "America does not belong to them. It belongs to us"
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  "textContent": "_“The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights–era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere”\n— AP News_\n\n- - -\n\nA key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act sought to ensure that racial groups could not be denied political representation through gerrymandering along racial lines. We, the Conservative Justices on the Supreme Court, believe that this law is both unnecessary and unconstitutional. If anything, drawing districts to combat racism is the _real_ racism.\n\nThe problem with the Voting Rights Act, as it is written, is that it allows states to draw district boundaries so that certain racial groups have a better chance at equal representation. In Louisiana, for example, where Black people make up roughly a third of the population, the congressional maps were specifically drawn so that a third of the districts were majority Black. Does that seem fair to you?\n\nThe color of one’s skin should never determine which congressional district they belong to. Taking race into consideration in order to stop racism is just as bad as doing it for racist reasons. It’s like how Superman and Bizarro are equally evil—they’re both undocumented aliens who are stealing jobs from qualified Americans with superpowers.\n\nWhile the Voting Rights Act went to great lengths to ensure better representation for Black Americans, it completely overlooked the ways in which white Americans have been discriminated against throughout the country’s history. Many white people had their personal property stripped away after the Civil War. That’s the sort of thing you’d expect to see in communist Russia, not the United States. The fact that their personal property was other people doesn’t change that.\n\nAnd if you think about it, the Voting Rights Act actually took away political representation from white people. They went from being wildly overrepresented in Congress to being slightly less overrepresented. Isn’t taking something away from a certain group of people based on the color of their skin racial discrimination?\n\nNow those white people have fewer members in Congress to go to for their problems—like how the cost of restringing a tennis racket just keeps going up and up and up, or how they aren’t making new seasons of _The White Lotus_ fast enough. Who are they supposed to write to about that? Some Black guy?\n\nLiberals argue that the decision is going to allow red states to draw entirely Republican-leaning districts that effectively disenfranchise Black voters in those states. But we’ve long upheld the constitutionality of gerrymandering along partisan lines. Just because a vast majority of Black voters support Democrats doesn’t make partisan gerrymandering a proxy for deliberate racial discrimination. Besides, saying that Republicans don’t represent Black voters simply isn’t true. The Senate has plenty of Black Republican.\n\nThe truth the left refuses to acknowledge is that we are a far different society today than we were when the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. Overt racism is a thing of the past, and none of the left’s counterexamples hold water. Last year, for instance, when Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt said, “America does not belong to them. It belongs to us” he was clearly talking about immigrants of all races versus Americans of all races. He would way rather live in a Black neighborhood than live next to a Norwegian immigrant.\n\nIf America was a racist country, don’t you think that the Supreme Court’s decision would immediately prompt red states to begin redrawing their maps to vote out Black and Brown representatives? The fact that these states are rushing to redraw their maps along partisan lines rather than saying “We are doing this specifically to disenfranchise Black, Brown, and Indigenous people” tells you everything you need to know.\n\nThe radical left needs to relax. Congress will continue to represent the needs of all Americans, regardless of race. And if you’re one of the Black, Brown, or Indigenous voters whose representative gets voted out, don’t worry. You can always try calling some white guy for help.",
  "title": "We Believe That Combating Racism Is the Real Racism"
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