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[00:00:00]confusion when it comes to the Supreme Court's decision today in the Louisiana v. Calais case, and I just want to break it down to make sure we're on the same page, okay? Black people, you cannot combat racism because that's racist. Oh, yes. And if you bring up racism to us to make us accountable, that's also racist and unconstitutional. Yeah. We don't care that you represent the majority of a district and you want representation because how dare you want representation even though you're black and taxes.

[00:00:31]Uh-huh. That's racist because what about the white people? Even though they make up more than 58% of this country's population and the same for Louisiana's population, what about them and their representation? Even though they already represent the majority, how dare you bring up racism, okay? Because that's racist and unconstitutional. And never mind how this is going to affect tons of other congressional seats because they're already gerrymandering the hell out of all of these states, okay? Focus.

[00:00:59]Black people, stop being racist, okay?

[00:01:01]And if you bring up racism or try to combat racism, you're racist, that's unconstitutional, and we don't have that in our country.

[00:01:11]I can tell you >> Wow.

[00:01:13]>> as a black woman that my father was born in 1949.

[00:01:17]He remembers segregated schools. He remembers segregated water fountains. He remembers that he couldn't that he did not have full civil rights, and he told me when I turned 40 years old that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights. And he is still alive today, and I am still alive today, and I have been discriminated against, and now I have to tell my children that they have less civil rights than I did when I was born.

[00:01:43]>> That's true. That is disgusting, despicable, and I am devastated by this particular Supreme Court decision, even though we'll be we did know this was coming.

[00:01:54]Hi guys. My name is Missy, and you're welcome back to the channel. You know what's really shocking about this whole situation? For decades, America pushed this image that welfare, food stamps, and government help were all somehow black problems. Every election cycles, politicians and media personalities painted the picture of lazy black families draining the system, while the hardworking Americans suffered. But now, the truth is sitting right in front of everybody. The biggest user of many of these assistance programs have always been white Americans. And suddenly, now that the economy is squeezing everybody, people are finally realizing the system they defended was never truly designed to protect ordinary people at all.

[00:02:45]That's the irony.

[00:02:47]A lot of people supported policies thinking they would only hurt those people.

[00:02:52]They cheered for cuts.

[00:02:54]They mocked struggling families. They attacked social programs. They called people weak for needing help.

[00:03:01]But now, grocery prices are exploding.

[00:03:05]Insurance bills are climbing. Rent is becoming unbearable. People with decent jobs are drowning in debts. And now, the same people who once judged others are online crying, stressed out, frustrated, and angry because survival in America is becoming harder every single day.

[00:03:29]What's happening now exposes something deeper than politics.

[00:03:34]It exposes how racism has been used for generations as a distraction.

[00:03:41]Poor people were divided against each other, while the wealthy kept gaining power. Instead of workers uniting around wages, healthcare, housing, and economic fairness, many people we are taught to blame black Americans for everything wrong in the society. Anyway, guys, let's see how people are reacting to these videos. We will come back to talk more. And if you have not subscribed to the channel, please do so for more information.

[00:04:09]I will be right back.

[00:04:11]There is something so insidious happening right now to the black community and most white people literally have no idea it's even happening. The black community is under attack right now at a level we haven't seen probably since the Civil Rights Era. You know, with the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act earlier today, you've got the purge of black federal workers, attacks on nonprofit funding with the whole DEI boogeyman, you've got attacks on the social safety net, overt racism is on the rise across the board, and they're tired, y'all.

[00:04:47]They are exhausted by this onslaught.

[00:04:50]And it's self-proclaimed white Christians leading the charge against them on all of these fronts.

[00:04:57]So, if you are a white Christian and you are not deceived by Trump, we need to rally together around our black brothers and sisters right now. We need to form a wall around them and we need to say, "No more."

[00:05:10]No more because this isn't right and we cannot stand by and do nothing as they are getting absolutely pummeled like Reconstruction just ended or something.

[00:05:23]They say this is about legal standards, but if you zoom out, it looks a lot like moving the goalposts again. So, let's talk about this Supreme Court decision that happened today from a perspective that does not get centered enough. As a black voter, Louisiana is about 1/3 black, but for years had only one majority black congressional district out of six. So, black voters challenged that under the Voting Rights Act saying their voting power was being diluted.

[00:05:54]The state eventually created a second majority black district. And now this Supreme Court says that map went too far.

[00:06:06]So, let me translate what that feels like. When there is only one district, that is called dilution. When you try to fix it with two, now that is being called unconstitutional.

[00:06:19]So, what exactly is the acceptable amount of representation?

[00:06:24]Because that line keeps moving.

[00:06:27]The court says race cannot be the dominant factor in drawing these maps even when trying to correct discrimination.

[00:06:37]So, legally that sounds neutral, but in reality race has always been a factor.

[00:06:43]It just was not benefiting black voters before.

[00:06:48]And now the standard to prove discrimination just got harder.

[00:06:53]So, this is not just about Louisiana.

[00:06:55]This is about whether the protections under the Voting Rights Act are being narrowed to the point where they barely work. Because if you cannot consider race enough to fix discrimination, but discrimination still exist, what exactly are you allowed to do? In a comment section yesterday, I said I'm tired of being black.

[00:07:19]And in my DMs, I got conversations of what does that mean? What do you mean you're tired of being black?

[00:07:25]And a lot of other people who claim to be allies or who say they're allies of black people, they don't understand that. And I'm not saying black fatigue.

[00:07:34]I'm saying being black in general. Being black comes with such a heavy responsibility.

[00:07:41]It also comes with a burden of a past that we can't escape.

[00:07:45]Being black means to always walk into a room and scan it to make sure someone else is there just in case something happens.

[00:07:53]Being black is walking into a store and praying that you're not characterized as a thief or a hood rat by the store owner just because of the color of your skin.

[00:08:03]Being black is going into an interview and praying that your name or the way your hair looks doesn't get you put to the side because they don't know if you're capable of doing the job even though they've seen your application and know that you're probably overqualified for the position.

[00:08:21]Being black is always having to apologize for being black.

[00:08:29]To always know that there's a target on your back.

[00:08:32]To watch a country who is literally built off the blood and the bones and the tears of your ancestors tell you that you are not worthy enough to be a part of this this country to have a right to use your voice.

[00:08:48]Being black is hard and is watching everyone devour your culture and your hairstyles and the way you speak and your art and your inventions and then tell you that you are not allowed to capitalize off of it or you're not allowed to say anything because it's not blackness, it's American. See, we're American when everybody wants to steal from us.

[00:09:13]We're black when no one wants to protect us. No one wants to stand up for us.

[00:09:20]It's tiring being black.

[00:09:24]And it's tiring having to explain that although I am proud of being black and I love being black sometimes being black is exhausting.

[00:09:40]Because everyone everybody looks at your blackness as a hindrance until they need your blackness or they need your black body or they need your black voice or they need your black culture so they can rise above the fray.

[00:09:58]Shame on the Supreme Court for what it did today.

[00:10:02]The Republican majority on the court voted to strike down congressional maps drawn in Louisiana that would have given black voters in that state who make up 30% of the population more equal representation.

[00:10:15]In doing so, the Republican Supreme Court effectively gutted the remaining protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark civil rights era law that restricted racial discrimination in voting.

[00:10:30]Now, I have lived through the civil rights era and I've argued before the Supreme Court.

[00:10:37]Justice Samuel Alito knew exactly what he was doing. He wrote the opinion using a bunch of technical gibberish to justify his decision to make it seem as if the court wasn't completely invalidating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, but it did.

[00:10:53]And Alito knew it.

[00:10:55]This Supreme Court has dishonored the countless activists who fought for the Voting Rights Act, including those who paid for it with their lives.

[00:11:05]Alito and the conservatives on the John Roberts Court have now made it much more difficult, if not impossible, for minority voters to fight discrimination when states redraw their congressional maps.

[00:11:17]This will open the door for other states to redraw future maps in ways that will dilute the votes of minority voters, giving them less say in who represents them in Congress.

[00:11:29]Some Republican-controlled states like Florida, Tennessee, and Mississippi are already redrawing their congressional districts. This could have an impact on the 2026 midterms.

[00:11:40]But, the major effect of today's decision will likely be in 2028 and beyond.

[00:11:48]Folks, I don't want to sugarcoat this.

[00:11:50]It's devastating news, making it all the more important for us to show up in full force for this November's midterms.

[00:11:58]Democrats need to win back control of both houses of Congress, and they need to win state legislatures to ensure that Republicans don't gerrymander away the voting rights of minorities.

[00:12:10]This is the time for all of us to show that democracy is still alive if we fight for it. So, the US Supreme Court just struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, and the honest truth here is that one, Republicans are still going to cry sweet tears this midterms on election night, and two, it's nowhere near what Republicans thought this was going to be for them.

[00:12:34]Effectively, this case was a dispute over the second blue seat that was created by the courts in Louisiana, and the Supreme Court ruled that the process to create that seat was not valid. And so, they left the Voting Rights Act section two in place, but they ruled against this seat. Due to multiple red states effectively being barred from redistricting, like in Georgia, they've already began voting on their primary.

[00:12:56]Mississippi already had their primary, and Alabama is effectively barred by the courts.

[00:13:02]The effects that they can really have on this this midterms is relatively slim, especially when you take up for the fact that Utah now has a new blue district as a result of a court battle that happened. So, yes, Republicans are still going to very much lose this midterms, and they will be crying sweet tears, but here's the reality here.

[00:13:21]The Republican Party is going to go to the max to see how much of the VRA that the Supreme Court is willing to accept. That's why you've got states like Tennessee saying that now they want to redraw their maps to get rid of all blue seats to test to see how far the Supreme Court will let them go. Which is exactly why we need to do the same thing. You know, the Republican strategy is to just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. So, I say let's do this. Let's go create an entirely blue Illinois. And let me tell you two can play at that game, Alabama. I'm about to show you guys how much the blue state population advantage works against you.

[00:13:58]We're going to use your rules against you. Look at Colorado. They've got a Democratic governor, a Democratic legislature, Democratic It's a blue state. And they can draw a map that is compliant with the letter of the VRA.

[00:14:12]That gets rid of four red seats. You could have a completely blue New York, a 52-0 California. You can really ram this through because let me tell you something, guys.

[00:14:21]You got to talk to these Republicans in the only language they understand.

[00:14:25]They don't understand protests. They don't understand complaints. They understand when you use their own rules against them. You know that it's going to be a couple of years until this ruling really starts to affect seats.

[00:14:37]So, start that work now. Start that work to match that same fire that the GOP is bringing so that you don't have to go and say in a couple of years, "Oh, well, we're out of time." Or "Oh, this takes whatever." Start that now. Draw maps that allows America to respond to the fact that these sick people destroyed our economy. And I tell you what, by the time all this is said and done, these Republicans are going to be begging on all fours for an independent redistricting committee cuz it's the only way they'll be competitive again.

[00:15:04]Today's decision by the United States Supreme Court will impact your rights, your representative, and every election from here on out. It's a big deal in case you weren't picking up what I'm putting down. By now, you already know the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on a case out of Louisiana about one of its congressional districts. Now, I know that doesn't sound like anything you should get yourself involved in or care about, but you might want to because today's ruling, according to the conservative supermajority, chips away at the 1965 Voting Rights Act, but according to the liberal justices, it goes way farther than that. They say today's ruling effectively guts the last bit of that landmark civil rights legislation. Either way you cut it, millions and millions of Americans will be affected by this ruling, and there may be some unintended consequences that we haven't even thought about yet. So, let me explain. The whole issue in front of the court today is about that one congressional district in the state of Louisiana. The Constitution says the way we are all supposed to be represented by members of Congress is based on the population of our state, and that representation should be proportional.

[00:16:08]Now, that doesn't just go, by the way, for representation in Washington, D.C.

[00:16:11]It also goes for your representation in your state government, too. Well, in Louisiana in 2020, the census awarded the state six US House seats based on the state's population. State lawmakers drew a new map to create those six House districts. That map included one majority black district out of the six, even though black voters make up about 1/3 of the state's population. So, in 2022, a group of black voters sued the state saying, "Hey, this map is a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which says you, the state, are not allowed to draw new district maps that dilute the power of our minority vote." A federal judge agreed and said, "Yep, it's a violation.

[00:16:56]State of Louisiana, you need to redraw that map." And by 2024, Louisiana had followed the judge's order, and Louisiana drew a new map that created not one, but now two majority black districts because, remember, representation is based not only on population, but also should be proportional. Well, a group that describes itself as non-African American sued and said that new map with those two majority black districts is a violation of the equal protections clause of the Constitution. And today, the conservative supermajority of the United States Supreme Court said, "Yeah, that new map with those two majority black districts is unconstitutional." Now, importantly, Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion, said that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is still intact.

[00:17:43]He said the justices are not getting rid of it all together. However, the reality is today's ruling is going to make it way more difficult to prove that a state is violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by gerrymandering a map that dilutes the minority voice. Alito says a plaintiff now has to prove that the state intentionally drew its district to afford minority voters less opportunity because of their race. He went on to say they have to prove that a districting scheme denies members of a racial group the same opportunity as other voters to elect the candidate they prefer. Prior to today, if the minority voters wanted to challenge a state map under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, they had to meet a much lower threshold. And they certainly didn't have to prove the state intended to dilute their vote. But why?

[00:18:34]Why is this happening now? Well, it's sort of been a feature of the Roberts Court for a while, but generally, the conservative justices on this court do not believe racial discrimination is really a problem in this country, certainly not the way it was in the past. In fact, in his majority opinion today, Justice Alito wrote, "Vast social changes have occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South, which have made great strides in ending entrenched racial discrimination." Now, whether you agree with that or not is your choice, but I can tell you the liberal justices absolutely do not agree with that statement. And Justice Elena Kagan, who wrote the dissent, said this ruling is absolutely going to take us backwards and it is going to make it harder to prove that a state is diluting minority voices. She wrote, "There is a substantial risk that intentional discrimination would go undetected, uncorrected, and undeterred. The consequences are likely to be far-reaching and grave. Today's decision renders Section 2 all but a dead letter.

[00:19:37]In the state where that law continues to matter, the states still marked by residential segregation and racially polarized voting, minority voters can now be cracked out of the electoral process. So, that's the ruling, that's the decision. So, how is this going to impact you? Well, this ruling is probably going to set off another flurry of redistricting in the states, especially in the South, where there are several minority districts like this one in Louisiana. We've already seen President Trump launch an extremely rare mid-decade redistricting war that has shifted congressional districts for voters in lots of states like Texas and California, Virginia, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, and probably Florida, too. But, here's the thing, that redistricting based on today's ruling may not impact the midterms because many of those states are sort of already in the primary election season.

[00:20:26]So, it might be too late to redistrict now. However, we should all brace ourselves because major redistricting wars will start right back up after the midterms, just in time for the 2028 presidential election. The Supreme Court is fighting the Voting Rights Act and I don't care cuz after we ball. Look here, right? If you black and you an American, you know this country has always fought us on everything. But, the fact that they're going to these lengths shouldn't scare you. If anything, it should put a battery in your back. Because this is where white supremacy was when it was most terrifying. Gerrymandering and redlining and trying to make up laws and stuff. Except the circumstances are a tiny bit different. And by a tiny bit, I mean a lot. I'm plenty informed on it, so let me make something perfectly clear. These people trying to play in our face. They knew this was the plan.

[00:21:17]They knew when they were going to do it.

[00:21:19]And they know that this ain't over. It's the theater. It's the theatrics. It's the trying to get us riled up so they can do more goofiness. And I need you to understand something.

[00:21:28]I'm already knowing. The reason those laws existed in the first place is because of y'all. I'm already knowing. I can look at photos of my family members right now during segregation. I'm already knowing. But you know what else I'm already knowing? There's nothing you can do to stop us. Nothing. Y'all still losing in November, gang. And for the controlled opposition, y'all losing y'all control, too. That's what this is about. Y'all being terrified that the grip you've had on society for so long is slipping. It's falling. And it can't get up. So instead you do a whole bunch of things to inconvenience everybody.

[00:22:07]Our politicians are such clowns. Real men, by the way. Don't believe me, watch this. We going to get that back.

[00:22:14]And then some. Okay, but do y'all actually understand what the Supreme Court just did? Okay, so remember how after slavery ended, they tried everything to stop black folk from using the vote that they just died for? Poll taxes, literary tests, grandfather clauses, All of it. So in 1965 they passed the Voting Rights Act to say specifically that you cannot do that anymore. That law is the whole reason why black districts exist in the first place. The whole reason why we have black congress people at all. Now fast forward to Louisiana. 1/3 of that whole state is black.

[00:22:45]1/3. But then when Republicans drew the map for who represents who in Congress, they drew it so that black voters only controlled one out of six districts. A girl one out of six. That's illegal. And a court literally told them that's It's Fix it. So they fixed it and added a second black district. Then somebody turned around and sued that map saying that it was a racial gerrymander and today the Supreme Court agreed. See, but here's where they got slick cuz they uh they said, "We didn't kill the Voting Rights Act. We just clarified what it means." But what they meant what they clarified is that if you want to prove that somebody is diluting your vote, you now have to prove that they meant to do that. Like their purpose, their in- tention was to dilute your vote. That they meant to do that to you on purpose and you got to bring receipts. You have to prove it. Girl, do you know how hard that is to prove? Like these politicians do not put, "Let's depress black votes" in writing. What they will say is something like, "We're protecting Republican incumbents." And guess what?

[00:23:47]Today the court said if it's partisan, it's legal, even if it falls entirely on black voters, even if the results look identical to Jim Crow era maps. Partisan cover is now legal cover. That's it.

[00:24:00]That's the ruling. And this is not some abstract future thing. Analysts are already saying this could flip 19 majority-minority seats. That means that this could put white candidates in the 15 seats that are currently being held by black congresspeople. You know when the last time something like that happened? After reconstruction.

[00:24:19]When the white folk violently pushed black people out of the government. And that's the comparison that's being made by a Supreme Court Justice in her dissent. Because three justices pushed back hard against this. Ketanji cuz we already know. Kagan and Sotomayor. And Kagan said this is this is what she literally wrote. She said the majority just completed the demolition of the Voting Rights Act. She said a state can now with zero legal consequences systematically dilute the voting power of minority citizens. She called it the biggest rollback of minority representation since reconstruction. A Supreme Court Justice said that in official legal writing and it still passed six to three.

[00:24:57]But here's what needs to be understood because the news is not going to connect these dots for you. This is not the first time they've done this. That's right. In 2013, they gutted the other part of the Voting Rights Act. The part that made certain states have to get federal permission before they started changing voting rules. States with a documented history of discrimination.

[00:25:16]Gone. And the minute that happened, voter ID laws exploded. Polling places closed and lines for the voting booth got longer in black neighborhoods overnight. But today, they finished what they started then. Both teeth got pulled today. So, the law still exists on paper, but it can't bite now. Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, they were literally waiting on this ruling. Like they had the new maps ready. Baby Texas, Texas already redrew our map. These states are about to go crazy redrawing their district maps. And there's now almost nothing anybody can do about it in court. Because you can't prove intent. And even if you could, they'll say it was partisan.

[00:25:59]Loop closed. No more loophole. So, the next time somebody tells y'all, "Oh, just go vote." like it fixes everything, please understand what happened today.

[00:26:07]They are currently engineering the maps so that they will function in a way that your vote will count and matter less than it already does when you do show up. This is not paranoia. This is a 6 to 3 Supreme Court ruling that came down today. Wednesday, April 29th, 2026.

[00:26:27]Baby, this is the bad place. Welcome back, my people.

[00:26:30]Still, despite all the angers online, this moment could teach an important lesson. Division only helps powerful people stay powerful.

[00:26:40]When working-class people hate each other, the elites win.

[00:26:44]America cannot fix economic problems by constantly turning racial groups against each other. White corporations and billionaires dominate everything behind the scenes.

[00:26:56]At that point, people have to ask themselves, who actually benefits from all this division?

[00:27:04]Because it's definitely isn't ordinary citizens struggling to pay for rent, buy groceries.

[00:27:12]The truth is simple. Most working people want the same thing.

[00:27:17]Affordable things, health care, stability, opportunities, safety for their families.

[00:27:25]But those goals becomes impossible when politics become more about blame, fear, and culture war than actual solution.

[00:27:35]And now, many Americans are learning the hard way that cheering for cruelty eventually creates a cruel system for everybody.

[00:27:45]Anyway, guys, let me know what you think in the comment section. Like and share my videos, and don't forget to drop your thoughts in the comment sections. I will be right back for your commentaries. See you guys in the next one. Bye-bye.