And now they have that equality. So why the race-based organizations that exclude whites?
No, because they didn't have voting rights at the time. Things are different now. Black people are not slaves and can vote the same as whites. Their votes count the same as a white person's does. Yet black-based organizations favoring people of one race over another exist now more than ever as if pretending they still aren't equal is somehow preferable over having actual equality. If white people were to start the exact same type of organizations as black people are allowed to have, it would be called racist. Apparently, the standard of "equality" is a double one.
However, there still exists issues that question if that equality has been achieved. One is that there still exists groups like the KKK that would remove that equality if they could. There is still institutional racism, and racial profiling.
And there are also issues with voter suppression where voters of color have more difficulty getting to the ballot box. Remember this?
Dodge City polling place debacle: voter suppression or incompetence?
That is one example.
Georgia’s 2018 Black Voter Suppression Efforts “Interwoven and Intentional”
Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, ninety-nine bills designed to diminish voter access were introduced last year in thirty-one state legislatures. Many of the recent Republican-led efforts stem from the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby v. Holder. In an opinion that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that discrimination still exists, but not sufficiently to warrant the “extraordinary” remediation measures that the act imposed on the states of the former Confederacy. That argument is roughly equivalent to saying that a decline in the prevalence of an infectious disease means that we should stop vaccinating against it. Within hours of the decision, Texas announced a strict new voter-I.D. law. Mississippi and Alabama shortly afterward began enforcing similar laws that previously had been barred.
The decision added a layer of severity to a voter-access crisis precipitated by state laws that prohibit six million Americans with past convictions from voting. In three Southern states—Florida, Tennessee, and Kentucky—this means that at least twenty per cent of eligible-age African-Americans cannot vote. Meanwhile, North Carolina enacted restrictions on early voting, a policy that particularly affects African-Americans, who are likely to be hourly-wage workers and cannot always get to the polls on Election Day. Last year, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to reinstate a voter-I.D. law in North Carolina that a federal court had found targeted black voters “with almost surgical precision.” In effect, the question posed by Roberts’s ruling is how much discrimination there has to be before you can justify protecting voters.
Ironically, though, a number of the recent laws validate Roberts’s argument about the undue burden that the Voting Rights Act put on the South; complaints have been lodged in several states that fought for the Union, such as Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa, which have passed strict voter-I.D. or roll-purge laws. Earlier this year, in Kansas, a federal judge struck down a law that required voters to provide proof of citizenship to register, championed by Kris Kobach, the secretary of state, who served as a vice-chair of Donald Trump’s short-lived voter-fraud commission and is now running for governor. In North Dakota, which didn’t become a state until twenty-four years after the Civil War, Native Americans must now provide an I.D. that shows a street address—even though many have only a P.O. box.
and a little history:
Georgia election fight shows that black voter suppression, a southern tradition, still flourishes
But again, the topic is that a former white nationalist who is working to get people out of white nationalism is saying it will get worse before it gets better. Check out his interview.
