Lorenzo Santos Statement on Supreme Court Voting Rights Act Ruling
Racine, Wisconsin – Black Americans helped build this nation. To be a person of color in America is to reckon with a complicated and fraught relationship with citizenship. It’s to constantly struggle to realize our rightful Constitutional protections in a country we sweat and bled to build and fought for in wars of every generation since its inception. It’s to contend with fighting for basic human rights and be gaslit that those rights were ever being threatened to begin with. It’s to know that our more perfect union will not be achieved by faith that our enumerated rights will be honored but by unapologetically insisting that they are.
Black Americans know our ancestors and allies died for us to be where we are today and we will not let their sacrifice be in vain. We will continue the fight for civil rights in our time. We will never allow the machinations of a racist administration or a complicit Supreme Court to ever reverse our hard-fought progress. In a democracy that is deteriorating under an administration that is committed to protecting a pedophile class over innocent children, determined to favor the rich over working people, eager to subserviently wage war for Benjamin Netanyahu’s interests over that of the United States, and are coming for the right of people of color to vote in free and fair elections, we must stand firm.
The Supreme Court rules that our congressional representation can be apportioned on the basis of partisanship but not race, while the GOP simultaneously is set to lose every black member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the next Congress. This makes their ruling a distinction without a difference. Americans on the right side of history will do what we have always done. Together, we must show up, fight back and win the upcoming elections in November and beyond.
NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.
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