The South rises again
On Monday, May 18, Michael Steele, one of the hosts of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight” and former chairman of the Republican National Committee, uttered a word that had been floating around in my head as I was out driving that day: apartheid. He pointed out that not only are state legislatures gerrymandering their congressional districts to exclude Black representation, but they are also gerrymandering their state legislative districts to do the same. The goal: Absolutely no representation at the state and national levels for Blacks and other people of color. In effect, to create a country where the soon-to-be majority (people of color) are completely disenfranchised, stripped of their rights, and dominated by the soon-to-be minority (white people). Just like in South Africa before Nelson Mandela and other Black leaders’ decades-long fight to end apartheid finally succeeded in 1994.
Chilling. Can you even imagine apartheid in the United States? The South rises again.