The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has gutted the Voting Rights Act, basing their decision on the argument that race should not be used as a factor to create congressional districts that offer a heightened chance of non-white candidates being elected. Now, with that ruling as justification, Republican-controlled legislatures in the South are using race as a factor to create altered districts that will decimate the ranks of Black members of Congress. Apparently, that kind of racial gerrymandering is just fine with the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed justices. In their imagined world, the South’s long history of racial discrimination and suppression of the Black vote is no longer of any significance. In the real world, however, Black voting rights in several states of the old Confederacy are once again being undermined by the same white political establishment that has always resisted sharing power with the descendants of the enslaved.…