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It’s happening in your lifetime: fair elections and true representation are about to be installed! Hallelujah! For decades, American politics has suffered a legally suspect and morally corrosive weaponization of race in the redistricting process, a strategic weapon wielded under the guise of civil rights but increasingly under scrutiny as a political device of division.

Now, with the Supreme Court poised to review the constitutionality of majority-minority congressional districts, a new chapter may be opening, one that promises a genuine reckoning with how race is used, and distorted, in our republic.

The case under review involves Louisiana’s congressional map, which includes two majority-Black districts, a revision prompted by lower courts finding that a single such district diluted Black voting power. Yet what initially looked like a routine Voting Rights Act (VRA) adjustment has now turned into a national battleground, and it could get bloody.

The high court’s recent order to revisit whether such race-based districting violates the Equal Protection Clause signals that America is on the verge of confronting a long-ignored contradiction: Can we simultaneously honor the constitutional demand for racial equality while enshrining racial preferences in our electoral maps?

Steve Eichler, JD, in today’s interview said, “Minorities have been victims of gerrymandering and morally corrosive manipulation for far too long and now must be set free from the political grip of the Progressive Democrat masters.”

The era of race-based districts is soon to become extinct, and rightfully so! Section 2 of the VRA was intended to combat real discrimination in a pre-civil rights era system that used every trick in the book:

• Poll taxes,
• Literacy tests,
• Obscure voting location

...and more—to suppress the Black vote, but now their voice is going to be heard loud and clear.

In recent decades, Section 2 of the VRA has morphed into a partisan shield, wielded as a weapon of control to carve out “safe” districts not for voters but for entrenched political machines. These districts have rarely been about empowering minority voices and more about caging them, control through the pseudo pretext of freedom, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Progressive Democrats logical trick is simple: pack as many minority voters as possible into a few districts, ensure those voters reliably elect Democrats, and claim moral victory under the guise of racial fairness.

But what could go wrong? A fragmented electorate deepened racial divisions, and a special political class became increasingly unaccountable as the public, unaware of these shenanigans, was kept in the dark.

This “race weapon,” drawing districts based on racial demographics rather than shared community interests, has preserved political power edifices rather than disrupted them. In doing so, it has paradoxically stifled minority voices by limiting their influence, forcing them to stay contained in the districts designed for them by their political masters, thereby silencing the true grassroots needs.

What the Supreme Court has now asked whether this practice of drawing lines based on race to comply with the VRA, is itself unconstitutional under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Conflict has been fermenting for years, but the court’s willingness to take it on has been weak at best. If the answer is yes, in eliminating the race weapon, then that could result in a sweeping redefinition of what it means to have fair representation.

Critics will ‘cry foul,’ warning that eliminating majority-minority districts will disenfranchise communities of color. But such claims fly in the face of the progress America has made since the 1960s and the fact that minority voters are not political slaves used to contort the vote in favor of the redistricting bourgeoisie.

If the court ultimately rules against race-based redistricting, the implications will be far-reaching. State legislatures will need to adopt new, race-neutral redistricting standards. Communities will be drawn based on geography, common interests, and civic cohesion, not color. And most importantly, the political class will be forced to compete on ideas and performance, not on manipulated voter pools.

This pending decision is not about ignoring race. It's about transcending it. Ending the race-based engineering of electoral maps doesn’t erase the history of discrimination; it honors it by ensuring that no group is a victim of the race weapon, having their voice silenced and their vote negated.

Final Word: The identity-based race weapon will be disarmed, and Freedom will be deployed. Hallelujah!