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.…