Sounds plausible, but that doesn't make it true (or false). I'm sorry to say that liberals play games in this space, and I don't particularly trust these neat n

Sounds plausible, but that doesn't make it true (or false). I'm sorry to say that liberals play games in this space, and I don't particularly trust these neat narratives. The overarching objection I have is that it casts black folks as helpless victims unable to change their own circumstances. I find it very hard to believe that making voting inconvenient, even terribly inconvenient, even to the extent that you describe, is enough to dissuade fully half of all black people to opt-out. And if you're right, I would argue that the black people themselves need to fix it. If I was part of an oppressed minority and there was a legal, peaceful way for me to have even a sliver of a chance of changing my people's circumstances, you'd have to keep me out of the voting booth with a gun in my face. (And yeah, at that point I'd say a real revolution is in order.)