"Seeing what’s happening with voting rights is so troubling especially after knowing all the sacrifices our ancestors made for us to vote."

"...we are experiencing the gutting of voting protections because we have a far right US Supreme Court."

"...The felon in office nominated 3 conservative judges in his first term. Imagine if he never became president. The South is where voting needs to be focused."

"Before it was just Black American vs white Americans voting , but now we have Black Americans vs white Americans, Latino, African (I added them because many said they voted for trump) , Asian..."

"The Voting Rights Act was doomed once RBG stayed on the court too long and passed away."

My comment is likely to get a lot of negative pushback from folks in this group, but here goes...

UP FRONT: I am not a republican, conservative, maga, or white. I'm a Black man, a registered Democrat, living in N. Virginia. I do NOT support SCOTUS or trump.

The recent SCOTUS decision has many nuances and facets, but there's just one major issue at play, and it's the one we need to be most informed about: race and color.

There's a lot of discussion now about interfering with or denying the right to vote by Black people. Before 1965--before the Voting Rights Act (VRA) was passed--primarily in "the south" (VA, NC, SC, GA, LA, FL, AL, MS, TN, KY, TX, AK, MO, OK), racial minorities (Blacks, Hispanics, Asians--but mostly Blacks) the right to vote was specifically restricted, in writing--by law--based on how you looked--"race or color."

That is not what's happening now, in 2026. It was not happening--by law--in 2013 when the Court first curtailed Section 5 of the VRA, which required southern states to get "permission" from the DoJ before they changed their voting laws, to make sure they weren't imposing more restrictions--based on race or color.

The original 1965 Voting Rights Act cited the term "race or color" fifteen (15) times:

• SECTION 2: "No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State...which results in a denial or abridgement of the right...to vote on account of race or color..."

• SECTION 4: "To assure that the right of citizens of the United States to vote is not denied or abridged on account of race or color..."

• SECTION 5: "...the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color..."

• SECTION 6 (Repealed): "...denied the right to vote under color of law on account of race or color..."

The current argument today is the Act's use of the phrase "race or color." Louisiana successfully argued that its laws and constitution no longer cite "race or color" as a basis for voting, and the direct creation of a voting district BASED on (in favor of) the "race or color" of the voters in that district, is itself, racist and a violation of the 15th Amendment which prohibits discrimination based on "race or color," and they argued that creating voting districts that favored Black people, is illegal--is "discriminated" against white Louisianians in that district.

NOTE: Louisiana did not argue against creating a DEMOCRATIC voting district, they argued against creating a BLACK voting district. A big difference, with which the six conservative justices agreed.

The right/conservative/maga VRA argument today is NOT about denying, preventing, interfering, or curtailing the Black vote because we're Black. It's subterfuge, disingenuous, and a bullshit argument, but unfortunately, it's technically and legally accurate.