I have experience with voter engagement with persons of multiple ethnicities in New York City. Unfortunately, I discovered that many people have voter apathy, and consequently local elections have dismal voter turnouts. Furthermore, because Section Four of the Voting Rights Act was dismantled in 2013, it is now possible for states to impose voting laws without preclearance by the federal government. This makes for a situation where unjust laws, rooted in racial discrimination, can be implemented without federal clearance, leading to the disenfranchisement of Black and minority groups. Those seeds of injustice may produce a harvest of devastation in the future, even within a majority-minority …show more content…
The impending majority-minority society may prove itself to be an advantageous context for those who work on the side of justice. Yet in the capitalist society of the United States, I believe economics and racism are joined together. I live in New York City, where gentrification is pricing people out of their neighborhoods. Many of these people that are being priced out are minorities, while the people moving in are White; the group that can afford the cost of living. Gentrification is not isolated in New York City, and is occurring across the nation. Ultimately, the work of racial justice advocates in the majority-minority society must focus on economic justice, voting rights, and