CRM/LAW C178 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: White Supremacy, The Takeaway, Majority Minority
11 Apr 2018
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Now how that structural dynamic plays out in voting law. Disenfranchisement and the physical intimidation/violence that attends expanding and universalizing the vote post civil war is not a departure from how we should understand. Bell: chapter is encapsulated in democratic dominance so how does white supremacy maintain despite this democratic principle (our democracy is based on the capacity of citizens to participate in the function of governance through voting. He articulates the problem of voting rights and race in a particular way: One race is disenfranchising another to save itself, the white race, from the consequences of its own vices (583, bell quoting. Talking aobut thier fraudlent practices in getting votes/tabulating votes, pushing people in, etc. and in many instances outright political violence. When you have a political system of electing officials of these vices (intimidation, assassinating) then the entire veneer of referencing a political community (city, county, state, nation) as democratic is thrown into question.
