Over the past decade, Democrats have made fighting against “institutional racism” among their highest priorities. But Democrats like institutional racism when it serves them, especially when it lets them segregate voters by race when creating congressional districts.
The current Supreme Court term is highlighted by a redistricting case, Louisiana v. Callais, which centers on race-based congressional districts effectively mandated by the Voting Rights Act. Louisiana was forced to add a second majority black congressional district to its electoral map after the 2020 census, with it being argued that having just one such district “diluted” the voting power of black voters.
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Both Louisiana and the Department of Justice have called for the case that set this precedent, Thornburg v. Gingles, to be overruled. You can quibble about the motivations — the Trump administration wants red states to redraw maps and eliminate the Democratic seats propped up by this requirement, and Louisiana at least wants clarity on the law — but the reality of the status quo right now is that it is voter segregation. Red states are required to gerrymander congressional maps to ensure that minority voters are shoved into a specific district just for them, with the idea being that they must be able to choose a candidate from a minority group to represent them.
As is the case with much of the American response to segregation, what was necessary in 1965 is no longer necessary in 2025. The country doesn’t need special laws babysitting Southern states because racism in Southern states has faded dramatically over the past 60 years. Now, black candidates get elected in majority white congressional districts in Texas and Florida, and South Carolina voters have elected a black man to represent their state in the Senate repeatedly. The societal and institutional racism that made “diluting the power of black voters” a relevant concern is gone.
All that is left is the institutional racism designed to solve a problem that no longer exists. Democratic activist groups such as the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union are now trying to uphold this institutional racism that forces legislators to draw voting maps with race at the top of mind. In their mind, black candidates (and candidates from other minority groups) aren’t good enough to get elected on their own. They view these race-segregated districts as necessary; affirmative action for minority candidates to represent the political stereotypes of racial groups.
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The situation has become so dire for race-obsessed leftists that activist Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson argued that black people were “disabled” for the purposes of voting during Supreme Court oral arguments, because they would not have “equal access to the voting system” unless they are segregated into their own separate but equal congressional districts.
The time for institutional racism is over, even the “good” type of institutional racism crafted to try to rectify the bad. The backward argument that it is racist to draw race-neutral congressional maps and that racially segregated maps are necessary to fight racism does not fly now, especially from a Democratic Party that uses race as a proxy for political views as it does now.
