Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais brings into focus the fact that whiteness is not passive or accidental and operates as a deliberate system designed to build and protect a shrinking power base, both in the United States and globally.
The case reflects an effort to hold on to political and legal control of that system at any cost and demonstrates that the issue is deeper than just voting maps or another example of courts overriding legislative intent, and that this is just an extension of a long-running struggle by those invested in a White nationalist social order to limit the influence of Black-led governance and movements.
The question now is whether to accept a race-first interpretation of the rule of law or to rely on collective experience and historical understanding that have made these patterns clear over time. At the same time, the push to maintain minority rule is under strain and faces growing pressure from forces it cannot fully control, both at home and abroad. In that process, its internal contradictions are becoming harder to ignore, and the narratives that once sustained it are weakening.
Watch Dr. Greg Carr break it all down with Karen Hunter.
