The Apostle Paul’s vision of the man from Macedonia, recorded for us in Acts 16:9-10, marked a major event in world history. It resulted in the Gospel going west rather than east and in it giving birth to Western Civilization, which rose to stand head and shoulders above all the other civilizations of the world. Under the influence of Christianity, Western Civilization crossed the Atlantic and conceived America, the greatest Christian nation in the history of the world. 

Instead of looking at Christian Europe and America as models to be exemplified, other nations came to loath us as the oppressors of all the earth. In other words, they blamed their poverty on American and European prosperity. Granted, evils such as colonialism, slavery, and segregation did provide incriminating evidence against Western Civilization, but these evils were eradicated over time by the West’s better angels. For instance, America not only fought a Civil War to end slavery, but also passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to end segregation, after which we even attempted to right the wrong of past discrimination by codifying into law reverse discrimination, by legally mandating affirmative action.

Despite the blood, sweat, and tears of righting our past wrongs, not to mention the contorting of ourselves to correct past racial injustices with present racial injustices, the condemnation of White Europeans and White Americans as the scourge of the whole earth has continued unabated. It has even disintegrated into racial demagoguery and class warfare, by which all White people are blamed for the problems of all people of color, and all the prosperous are blamed for the poverty of all of the poor. Obviously, there is no possibility of unity in such demagoguery, which perpetually pits the West against the rest of the world, Whites against all other races, and the wealthy against all of those in want.

In 2023, our Supreme Court ruled that race-based college admissions were a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fortieth Amendment. By doing so our highest court finally came to its senses and rightfully ruled that all race-conscience affirmative action is clearly unconstitutional. People, as Martin Luther King argued, should be judged by their character, not by their color. Echoing Dr. King, our Supreme Court argued that people should be admitted to college or hired for a job on the bases of their eligibility and qualifications, not on the bases of the color of their skin pigmentation. 

Yesterday, our Supreme Court, at least its six Republican-appointed Justices, rose up once again to rightly rule against another reverse discrimination unconstitutionality; namely, racial gerrymandering. This practice, which has been going on for years, is nothing but a political ploy by progressive Democrats to net for themselves additional congressional seats. Democrats craftily crafted this coy contrivance by convoluting the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which clearly stipulates that citizens of the United States cannot be denied the right to vote because of their race. However, Democrats elastically stretched this simple stipulation way beyond the limit of its legal intention, by claiming that it not only assures the right of minorities to vote, but also to vote for, as well as be represented by, members of their own race. Interestingly, this political ploy perpetrated by Democrats is actually a textbook definition of prejudice, since it is the preconceived idea that all races are monolithic; that is, that all the people of a particular race are all the same. They think alike, vote alike, and therefore can only be properly represented by one of their own.   

Thankfully, our Supreme Court ruled yesterday that racial gerrymandering is a clear violation of our Constitution’s required color-blind electoral process. While all colors have the right to vote, none have the right to have congressional districts drawn in their own color. Of course, yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling has colored Democrats red, as well as got them seeing red, since it threatens to strip them of a dozen racially gerrymandered congressional districts. Undoubtedly, Democrats will be dealing out a whole deck of race cards in the days ahead, desperately attempting to bluff us all into believing that our Supreme Court has dealt a losing hand to minority voters. The truth, however, is that Democrats no longer have the unconstitutional card of racial gerrymandering up their sleeve to illegally play in their bid to win the big pot of congressional control.