Adam Serwer: “If the Nice Resegregation proves profitable, it’s going to restore an America previous the place racial and ethnic minorities have been the occasional token presence in an in any other case white-dominated panorama. It will repeal the positive aspects of the civil-rights period of their entirety. What its advocates need shouldn’t be a restoration of specific Jim Crow segregation—that will shatter the phantasm that their very own achievements are primarily based in a color-blind meritocracy. They need an association that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely whereas retaining some believable deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal alternative whereas sustaining an unofficial racial hierarchy.”
“Like elections in authoritarian international locations the place the autocrat is all the time reelected in a landslide, they need a system during which they by no means threat shedding however can nonetheless fake they gained pretty.”
