The California Voting Rights Act is settled law? So what! Unless we get a demand letter, we can just maintain the status quo.
Democracy, according to Websters Dictionary, is a form of government where the supreme power is vested in the people through a system of representation that usually involves free elections. In other words, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. We are all taught this in primary school. But do we really believe it?
I don't believe it. Never have. The image at the top of this article gives me reason to not believe it. It's a snapshot of a wall of leaders in a community in Los Angeles County. A community with a 37% white population yet an almost 100% white city council. Please keep reading.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act specifically to address a major barrier to democracy: restricted access to the ballot. Before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Black people and other minorities had to overcome barriers that were impossible to overcome—by design! They were constructed to keep certain people from exercising their right to vote for whomever they felt would best represent them.
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