Take a look at some rulings in cases that stunned the Black community.
This year, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered several decisions that will disproportionately impact the Black community for decades to come and have stifled opportunities for minorities to close in on the racial wealth gap.
As a result, some
She added that the student loan debt crisis has disproportionately impacted Black women.
“Black women [are] saddled with this absorbing amount of debt that they cannot climb over,” she said. “[Black women] in the workplace earn less on average than our white male counterparts.”
Jonathan Petts, co-founder of Upsolve, a nonprofit organization that aims to assist citizens with their finances, previously told theGrio that Black and brown Americans would have greatly benefited from Biden’s student loan debt relief program.
“Many borrowers are struggling to just put food on the table … Borrowers took out student loans with an implied promise that they’d be able to get jobs from this debt after college,” he said.
“That hasn’t happened because of COVID and our economy,” Petts maintained.
The Supreme Court ordered Alabama’s GOP to redraw ‘discriminatory’ congressional maps
In September, the court ordered a special master to redraw Alabama’s congressional map to make it more inclusive for Black voters.
The Supreme Court found that Alabama’s map violated the constitutional rights of Black Alabamians and instructed a special master to include a second district in which Black residents make up the majority. If the map remained in place, Black voters would have a challenging time electing a candidate of their choice.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries previously told theGrio: “Extreme MAGA Republicans in Washington, in Alabama and throughout the country understand that they have difficulty winning elections or upholding their majority in the House without gerrymandering congressional districts illegally.”
Svante Myrick, president of People For the American Way, previously told theGrio that Alabama’s GOP is “presenting as many hurdles as they can … to limit Black voters in the upcoming election.”
“Fortunately, the judicial system overruled them,” he said.
“I believe there will be other decisions,” Jeffries has told theGrio, “to show that the Republican efforts to engage in unlawful gerrymandering, particularly as it relates to communities and districts of color, will be stopped dead in its tracks.”
The new Alabama congressional map that includes a Black majority district and a near-majority Black district will be used in the 2024 elections and could result in a Democratic victory.
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