“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.” — Booker T. Washington

The Supreme Court’s narrow 5-4 decision to strike down a central component of the 1965 Voting Rights Act — “freeing nine states, mostly in the South,” writes The New York Times, “to change their election laws without advance federal approval” — is a welcome recognition that times have changed and that especially Southern states must not forever bear a “mark of Cain” for past discrimination against racial minorities.

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