{"id":8627,"date":"2026-05-21T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:18:03","slug":"helplessly-hoping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/helplessly-hoping\/","title":{"rendered":"Helplessly Hoping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<em>The much misquoted first words and title to Stephen Stills song, sung by Crosby, Still and Nash,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BdBs7JFn9Pk\">Helplessly Hoping<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even at my age, nearing seventy, it\u2019s hard to remember the hard won victories of the 1960\u2019s Civil Rights movement.\u00a0\u00a0Many of those took place in the early 1960\u2019s, when I was a young child.\u00a0\u00a0It was the era of hope for racial equality.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The dramatic struggles, led by Dr. Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, put racial discrimination up-front for the American people.\u00a0\u00a0It was based on a simple principle: when confronted with the contrast between America\u2019s founding philosophy and the reality of racial inequity, America would choose for the good.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those leaders believed that if all of America saw what awful violence was done to peaceful protestors, the good citizens of the United States wouldn\u2019t tolerate it.\u00a0\u00a0And in the \u201clong view\u201d that Dr. King and the rest took (&#8220;the arc of the moral universe&#8221;), they were right.\u00a0\u00a0The visions of peaceful demonstrators being harassed and attacked at lunch counters made us cringe.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cFreedom Riders\u201d dragged off buses and beaten near to death made us shudder.\u00a0\u00a0And the attack dogs and fire hoses of Police Chief Bull Connor in Birmingham, unleashed on well-dressed young people whose only difference was the color of their skin, was intolerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jim Crow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of those marches, and all of that suffering, led to the March on Washington, best known for King\u2019s \u201cI Have A Dream\u201d speech delivered from the Lincoln Memorial.\u00a0\u00a0Ultimately President Johnson (newly in office after the Kennedy assassination) was able to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act.\u00a0\u00a0That ended \u201cJim Crow\u201d, the legal separation of the races.\u00a0\u00a0But it did not guarantee the right of Black people to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the terrible attack of state police force against peaceful marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama that convinced America that the right to vote was a separate, and special, American principle.\u00a0\u00a0And it was the decision of the ABC television network that placed that violence in front of the American people.\u00a0\u00a0In 1965, there were three networks, and at best, three channels on television.\u00a0\u00a0The most popular Sunday evening show was ABC\u2019s Sunday night movie, and on March 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 1965, the movie was, ironically,\u00a0<em>Judgment at Nuremburg,\u00a0<\/em>about the Nazi war crime trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABC interrupted the movie with coverage of the violence in Selma.\u00a0\u00a0The whole country saw peaceful citizens, dressed in \u201cSunday best\u201d, walking across a bridge, then savagely beaten by the police.\u00a0\u00a0As Dr. King instructed, they did not fight back.\u00a0\u00a0They were young, King himself only thirty-five, and the physical leader of the march, John Lewis, was twenty-five.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Voting Rights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">America was outraged.\u00a0\u00a0And King convinced Johnson to back the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the final legal block in building Black civil rights in America.\u00a0\u00a0That Act stood as the firm foundation of American voting fairness for forty-five years.\u00a0Current Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, an opponent of the Voting Rights Act since the early 1980\u2019s, leads the current attack on it.\u00a0\u00a0He finally cobbled together a five vote majority to restrict the law in 2013.\u00a0\u00a0And now, with the Trump influence of three appointees on the Court, last month\u00a0he eviscerated it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The corpse of the Voting Rights Act wasn\u2019t even cold when states like Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida moved to redraw legislative districts.  That includes Congressional Districts.\u00a0\u00a0Their goal was simple and racist:\u00a0\u00a0to obliterate Black majority districts (required by the Act) and dissolve the power of Blacks voting in the South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We went from 2026 to 1963, at the speed of the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shorten the Arc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are long term solutions.\u00a0\u00a0If:\u00a0\u00a0if Democrats regain control of the House, Senate and the White House, a new Voting Rights Act (the John Lewis Act) could be passed.\u00a0\u00a0The Court would be hard-pressed to overrule the newly acquired power of that Congress and Presidential authority.\u00a0\u00a0But that\u2019s for 2029.\u00a0\u00a0And there are protests happening now.\u00a0\u00a0The drama on the floor of the Tennessee legislature, as the few Black members burned paper Confederate flags watching their own districts wiped out, is but one example.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we can\u2019t wait for 2029.\u00a0\u00a0Too much can happen, too many things have to go right, to depend on that.\u00a0\u00a0Besides, it requires an unfounded \u201cfaith\u201d that free and fair elections will still be available.\u00a0\u00a0Every action by the current government denigrates that belief.\u00a0\u00a0So what can be done NOW?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the moment, the re-birth of Jim Crow voting is confined to the old Confederacy.\u00a0\u00a0Americans can determine not to spend their money in those states.\u00a0\u00a0They are all vulnerable to an economic boycott by Americans who think their racist re-districting is intolerable.\u00a0\u00a0And for those who think \u201ceconomic boycotts\u201d aren\u2019t a \u201cfair\u201d way to protest, I only point you to the Boston Tea Party.   It was the original economic protest against government inequity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Empty Bridges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And modern Black leadership groups are once again turning to their young people to lead the struggle.\u00a0\u00a0A huge and visible part of the \u201cold South\u201d today is college football:\u00a0\u00a0Alabama, Clemson, Florida State, Florida U and Miami; LSU and Tennessee. The Southeastern Conference is the obvious example.\u00a0\u00a0The schools depend on the abilities of young Black men to win their games.\u00a0\u00a0And those young men now have great choices, not just on where they attend, but how much they are paid.\u00a0\u00a0If they instead choose USC, or Ohio State, or even MICHIGAN (a dangerous thought for one who lives in Buckeye Country); the impact will be swift.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can all make economic choices to speak out against racists laws.\u00a0\u00a0We can reward those states who resist the MAGA pressure, and we can deny our money to those that don\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0There won\u2019t be a \u201cEdmund Pettus Bridge\u201d moment.\u00a0\u00a0But an empty\u00a0Lake Pontchartrain\u00a0Causeway to New Orleans, or Overseas Causeway to the Florida Keys, or Wilson Bridge to Mobile; might make the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The much misquoted first words and title to Stephen Stills song, sung by Crosby, Still and Nash,&nbsp;Helplessly Hoping) Recent History Even at my age, nearing seventy, it\u2019s hard to remember the hard won victories of the 1960\u2019s Civil Rights movement.\u00a0\u00a0Many of those took place in the early 1960\u2019s, when I was a young child.\u00a0\u00a0It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/helplessly-hoping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Helplessly Hoping&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Supreme Court re-established the racism of the 1950's.  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