On the Basis of Race

Callooh Callais Social Constructs The Origin of Race The Triangle Oh, Right Post-Racial Society, Though Sabotaged Amendment Vote-Nihilism Back to Callais and Company Content Warning: I need to talk United States politics and a recent Supreme Court decision. If that doesn’t work for you, then I promise that you probably won’t miss much, though I’ll try to make it interesting and (I hope) short. Almost three years ago, I wrote a post that I thought of as (but didn’t title) Affirmative Action for the Over-Privileged Bigot, explaining why we have (and should continue to have) affirmative action and similar programs in terms that even a Supreme Court Justice could understand. And I might have had a specific Supreme Court Justice in mind. You can think of this post as a spiritual successor to that post, because I think of this post as a reaction to Louisiana v. Callais, which functionally wipes out the Voting Rights Act in the United States, all but openly stating that a state can justify…