America practices a representative democracy that is based on the supremacy of the United States constitution. The 15th Amendment of the United States constitution states in Section 1 that:"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude and in the Section 2 it states that:"The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation". The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits any discriminatory practices that prevent any American from voting or denies any American the constitutional rights to vote. The section 5 of this voting rights act is now before the nine Supreme Court justices of America to either strike down permanently or uphold to continue as the voting law of America.
One of the conservative justices of the Supreme Court Anthony Scalia called this section 5 of the voting rights act that is before his court today as the "perpetuation of racial entitlement". Is Justice Anthony Scalia telling America in 2013 that racism or racial discrimination in voting practices is now official dead? Is America now a 100% color blind society that American minorities should not be protected by federal law any longer from all forms of voting discriminations? America's democracy can only survive in this 21st century human universe if it is truly all inclusive in all reality. I hope the Supreme Court justices will uphold the constitutional rights of all Americans from all races, ethnicities, languages, national origins and cultures to be part and parcel of the American representative democracy.
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