Jesse J. Holland: White Republicans are trying to strip Black cities of power. Does Joe Biden care?
, ended 2022 with the highest homicide rate of any major city in the United States, with more than 130,000 people killed.As awful as those statistics are, that’s why we have elections: When the people who live in these areas are dissatisfied with the work of their elected leaders and the effectiveness of the police, they can make their voices heard by voting them out.
That’s the promise this country is supposed to stand for: Political leaders answer to the people they represent, and when a majority thinks the job isn't being done to its satisfaction, those leaders are voted out. That was why the Voting Rights Act existed in the first place, because white segregationists were refusing to let their Black constituents voice their disapproval of their segregationist tactics at the ballot box.
There’s a constant refrain from the GOP that Washington shouldn’t be telling Americans how to run their lives, but members of the same party either don’t see the contradiction or don’t care that they’re being hypocritical when they argue for outsiders taking control over Black cities. President Biden is right to visit Selma, and he’ll be right to call for Congress to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act. But if he doesn’t also call out Republican actors for their naked attempts to take governing power away from Black people or take back his promise not to veto Congress bullying D.C., then he will have missed a real opportunity.
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