Justice Ginsburg: Ferguson exposes lingering racial tensions the Supreme Court has ignored

[DonViejo]

Source: Raw Story

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview published Friday that the United States has a “real racial problem” that won’t get any better as long as the way that whites and people of color work and live and get educated “remains divided.”

The 81-year-old justice spoke to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about her disappointment in the lack of racial progress in the U.S. and that the Court — which was “once a leader in the world at rooting out racial injustice” — struck down key tenets of the Voting Rights Act last year.

“What’s amazing is how things have changed,” she said.

The court pioneered a realistic understanding of what 1971?s Warren Burger-led court called the “disparate impact” of laws that disproportionately affect minorities. In the U.S., the court said, racial minorities face “built-in headwinds” on the road to progress.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/22/justice-ginsburg-ferguson-exposes-lingering-racial-tensions-the-supreme-court-has-ignored/

[elleng]

1. It is excellent to hear her speak of these issues,

and tragic that she is correct.

[Cha]

2. Mahalo Justice Ginsburg~!

mahalo Don

[davidpdx]

3. Love you Justice Ginsberg!

[sorechasm]

4. Does Justice Roberts have an opinion about repercussions from shredding the Voting Rights Act?

Any shame in the following facts that won't stay under the rug?

Ian Millhiser at Think Progress wrote, “Two hours after Roberts claimed that racism was too minor a problem to justify leaving America’s most important voting rights law intact, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced that Roberts’ decision would allow a gerrymandered map and a recently enacted voter ID to go into effect. Federal courts had previously blocked both the map and the voting restriction because of their negative impact on minority voters. Alabama made a similar announcement about its voter ID law the same day Roberts handed down his decision. "

Of course this was only a coincidence. Gotta protect the (white) vote.