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Welcome to If It Happened Here, a podcast where the thin veneer of democracy that has hitherto veiled the settler colony of the United States.

In the mask, humanity is being increasingly ripped

away leaving behind I think calling it a new Jim Crow is that title's already been used for

something else but it's a return overtly to some of the worst discrimination of the Jim Crow era.

So I'm your host, Mia Wong. Let's talk about what is actually at issue here. And that is

a recent Supreme Court ruling called Louisiana v. Calais. On a sort of micro level, this is about the question of can Louisiana

just eliminate the two majority black districts that it had in its congressional map in

2024. Getting to this map in the first place was a subject of really intense civil rights

litigation to get to the point where there were two

majority black districts in 2024. On a macro level, what is at stake here is can a state

create an electoral map where they spread all of the black voters across different districts in order to make

them a minority in every district, thus making it impossible for black voters to select the

candidate of their choosing. Until now, the answer was no, because this is specifically what the

Voting Rights Act was passed to stop.

Like this specifically, like this is one of the very specific things.

I cannot emphasize this enough.

This specific thing, which is spread out the black vote across a whole bunch of districts

where everyone else is white so that black people cannot choose who they want to elect.

This is like one of the specific things.

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