Voter suppression reflects the racism of the past and projects racism into the future. Since both its perpetrators and its victims know that its purpose is white supremacy, it confirms tribalism and reproduces a politics of pain. Doing nothing to halt voter suppression means complicity in white supremacy. If white Americans do not care that others’ votes are at risk, they take for granted that the country belongs to them as a tribe or a mob and thereby partake in the decline of democracy.
