The title comes from a 1989 book by the legal scholar Derrick Bell. He took it from a line in the Book of Jeremiah: “The harvest has ended, the summer is gone, and we are not saved.” Bell’s point was that the civil rights movement had not ensured the success of multi-racial democracy in the United States. Mine is that last Tuesday’s elections did not either.
Politicians as De Santis are really playing with fire. I know that many US right-wingers see him as a pro-freedom politician, as regarding Florida's ranking on different list about freedom and development. But being pro-freedom is incompatible with right-wing collectivism, Christian nationalism, populism. People are less in favour of freedom, liberalisations, privatisations, openness, individualism if they are driven by xenophobia, racism, nationalism, populism and authoritarian behaviours
One horrible thing is that in GOP, there are individuals who think and feel that Israeli ethnocratic development is an inspiration for how America should be, as by becoming a nativist and racist ethno-state. Really dangerous
Peter - insofar as gerrymandering is concerned, both parties tried to do it. Unfortunately, republicans were better at it. And the New York courts didn't help the democrats. Insofar as what DeSantis did to Black districts, I personally see that more as an attempt to gerrymander in favor of Republicans than anything else (I could be wrong). Don't get me wrong, I probably like DeSantis as much as you do...
But both sides try to gerrymander - and the fact that it's even part of how our election process works, shows that there are huge flaws in the process. A system without districts (such as Israel's - yes, really, Israel) is inherently more fair.
If I were black, I would be insulted by this article. Are you suggesting that Black people are unable to find time in the day to vote the way white people are able to do so? You don’t think white people work in jobs that also might make it more difficult to get to a polling station? This idea that Black people need to be given extra help and protections, as if they were children, is patronizing and racist. 
Marijuana / cannabis legalisation is very important also for combating racism and for improving criminal justice reform
Politicians as De Santis are really playing with fire. I know that many US right-wingers see him as a pro-freedom politician, as regarding Florida's ranking on different list about freedom and development. But being pro-freedom is incompatible with right-wing collectivism, Christian nationalism, populism. People are less in favour of freedom, liberalisations, privatisations, openness, individualism if they are driven by xenophobia, racism, nationalism, populism and authoritarian behaviours
One horrible thing is that in GOP, there are individuals who think and feel that Israeli ethnocratic development is an inspiration for how America should be, as by becoming a nativist and racist ethno-state. Really dangerous
Peter - insofar as gerrymandering is concerned, both parties tried to do it. Unfortunately, republicans were better at it. And the New York courts didn't help the democrats. Insofar as what DeSantis did to Black districts, I personally see that more as an attempt to gerrymander in favor of Republicans than anything else (I could be wrong). Don't get me wrong, I probably like DeSantis as much as you do...
But both sides try to gerrymander - and the fact that it's even part of how our election process works, shows that there are huge flaws in the process. A system without districts (such as Israel's - yes, really, Israel) is inherently more fair.
And while Chapelle is a comedian, I hope he’s read this letter to LeBron: https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-lebron-james-kyrie-irving-antisemitism-20221111-t6zhggr65nho3la4upmor67zjy-story.html
If I were black, I would be insulted by this article. Are you suggesting that Black people are unable to find time in the day to vote the way white people are able to do so? You don’t think white people work in jobs that also might make it more difficult to get to a polling station? This idea that Black people need to be given extra help and protections, as if they were children, is patronizing and racist.