THE N-WORD

This is a reblog of an article written by my friend, David Hershey-Webb. David is an attorney in New York who fights for the rights of tenants. He's one of the finest and most intelligent and aware people I've ever known, and I have known him since I was 11 years old...

It is a shame that the Young Republican white supremacist chatters use of the N-word, and jovial references to gas chambers and killing political enemies and hatred toward non-heteros and such, took some of the spotlight away from the United States Supreme Court’s own embrace of the N-word as it hurled toward dismantling the Voting Rights Act.  

The Supreme Court is ready to give a green light to the increasingly openly white supremacist Republicans Party’s efforts to insure the election of more white Congressional reps. SCOTUS majority is no better than the Young Republican chatters. In their hearts they are repeating the same N-word.  

The “respectable” Wall Street Journal editorial board cheered on the Supreme Court, stating that “only” 15 districts could be affected. 15 districts where there are Black Congressional reps who happen to be Democrats.  Only 15! Enough to keep the white supremacists in power for another decade or more.  15 Congressional districts where, in response to hundreds of years of legally-sanctioned white supremacy, “majority-minority” districts were created so that racial minorities in majority white states would have a chance to elect representatives of their own choosing. Because, guess what, white people are more likely to vote for white people! Guess what? Hundreds of years of white supremacy did not evaporate overnight.  It is in fact on the resurgence.  

And so the respectable Wall Street Journal editorial board  and SCOTUS (yes, including white supremacists’ favorite Black person, Justice Thomas), are dreaming the N-word and doing everything they can to restore white people to their proper place as masters.  

Their King Trump thinks it is pretty funny.  In a recent speech he referenced “nuclear weapons” and then said that “nuclear” was an “N-word” that you’re not supposed to say.  Then he said “not the other N-word that we can’t say.”  Because the N-word is on his mind every day as he plays out his role as the Great White Hope. 

I know what they are all saying in their private chat rooms and board rooms and country clubs.  Same thing they’ve been saying since 1619.  

Dhw

10/16/25