Against the Tide by Steven Friedman

The US Supreme Court has handed down a ruling which will deny many black voters a say in law-making.  It says that giving black people a voice is racist because it is unfair to whites. This sends us two signals. It warns against changing the way we elect law-makers and reminds us that, today, racism pretends to be non-racial.

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Steven Friedman is a public commentator and an academic, currently employed as a Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He has been writing on South African politics for the entire democratic period both as a scholar and public commentator. He has published books on South Africa’s transition to democracy, the role of the trade union movement, and current South African politics. He has also written columns and articles for several South African newspapers. His writing seeks to use academic research to shed light on current politics but to ensure that this is conveyed in a way easily understood by people who have no academic training.