I am questioning your ability to read with comprehension. I said the Supreme Court weakened every Civil and Voting Rights Act. You say they did not gut “either the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act.” You appear not to know there have been several Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act over the years. The need to keep having them is because the Supreme Court kept weakening them. Your insistence that they didn’t weaken the most recent Voting Rights Act of 1965 is ridiculous on its face given they removed the Preclearance Clause, effectively allowing States like the ones I named earlier to do whatever they liked without preapproval. You listed a number of decisions that were beneficial to blacks.
You are arguing a point I never made that the whole institution is racist. They just often do racist things, but not always. Even when they did the right thing as in Board v Board of Education, they did it in the least effective way by adding that “with all deliberate speed” clause which basically meant States didn’t have to do anything for decades until the government started forcing Consent Decrees on multiple jurisdictions. I live in one such area, Orlando, FL where its Consent Decree that forced compliance wasn't removed until the late 1990s.
There are ebbs and flows in the acts of our government as it applies. MLK said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I submit at this moment in time (yes this is a dig on Trump) it’s bending in the opposite direction but I remain hopeful.
I have challenged you to point to any Voting or Civil Rights Act that hasn’t been weakened by the Court. The example you seem to have chosen is the most easily disproven which was done. In June 2013, in Shelby v Holder the Supreme Court gutted the enforceability of the Act. Here’s an article summarizing what happened in the first five years afterward. If you dismiss the article based on the source, feel free to use Google to find any source you might believe. Should you actually find an example of an Act not weakened, I’ll play your game of answering your list of questions.
