Without Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, racial discrimination in voting would run rampant in the South, according to this week’s episode of ‘Saturday Night Live.’
In a segment called ‘Really!?! with Seth and Kevin’ — part of the ‘Weekend Update with Seth Meyers’ — Meyers and this week’s show host Kevin Hart broke down the Voting Rights Act case currently being debated in the Supreme Court.
The result: the Supreme Court and the southern states affected by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act are racist.
Meyers criticized Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for calling Section 5 a “racial entitlement” and said the Act was just a “backup defender for when racism beats the first guy off the dribble.”
The two comedians especially mocked Mississippi, where Hart said he wouldn’t even feel comfortable going outside on a cloudy day, much less at night.
“Mississippi, listen — I know you’re not as racist as you were in 1965,” Hart said. “But understand something — no one is as racist as you were in 1965. Listen, that is statistically the best year in the history of racism. Saying you’re less racist now is like being pulled over for a DUI and telling the cop, ‘I’ve been drunker.'”
The jokes are funny, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that, at the heart of it, the writers of ‘SNL‘ clearly don’t understand the facts behind the Voting Rights Act case and have bought into the liberal hype surrounding it.
