Racism, Sexism And Bigotry's In Your Imagination--Utopia Has Been Achieved: We Don't Have To Worry About Bigoted Bosses, Institutionalized Racism Or Vote Manpulation

by Monica Davis

Just in case you still think bigotry is alive and well in these Untied States, the Supreme Court thinks differently.  There’s no need for special protections like the Voting Rights Act, various and sundry EEOC laws, or Civil Rights laws. The Supreme Court says so.

Racism, lynching and vote manipulation are simply outmoded, parts of history and have nothing to do with modern American society.

Bigots inside government are not manipulating laws to keep minorities, women and Democrats from voting. Sexual harassment is a bygone activity, and even if it isn’t, as long as it’s your co-workers and not your boss engaging in it, that fine with the Supremes

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4, party-line vote, gutted the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday. But don’t worry, everybody. “Our country has changed,” assured Chief Justice John Roberts. Once upon a time, he said, the landmark civil rights law might’ve been needed to right a few wrongs. But racism in the South is no longer that big of a deal, he promised. One less thing to worry about.

Which is fantastic. While we’re not worrying about racism, we can also not waste any time worrying about global warming, as Republicans stormed to the cameras Tuesday to warn that any action President Barack Obama might take to stave off climate change – which probably doesn’t exist anyway! — will just be hurting the middle class.

And on Monday, the court told women who are harassed and abused at work by their boss that they shouldn’t worry about it, because that guy isn’t actually your boss, no matter what you thought! And why would we need a law banning discrimination against gays and lesbians at work, when that doesn’t happen anyway? There is no problem, it seems, that the GOP cannot summon the muster to pretend does not exist. And we have lately been treated to a series of insistences that societal problems have mysteriously been cured, or that they never existed in the first place, and that we are living in a gosh-darned utopia, with ponies for everybody, hooray! MOREHERE