The Intense Hate

 Hate is an intense, deep-seated emotional response of aversion, enmity, or extreme dislike, often fueled by anger, fear, or contempt



Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter didn’t misspeak. He said the quiet part out loud. While defending the dismantling of Black political power in Alabama through racist gerrymandering, he openly declared that he hopes the Supreme Court overturns the 14th Amendment, the amendment that granted citizenship to formerly enslaved Black people after slavery.

Let that sink in. An elected official in 2026 is publicly expressing hope that the constitutional amendment recognizing Black people as citizens of this country will be overturned. And some people still want to pretend America isn’t racist. This is what Make America Great Again has always meant to the extremists driving it: rolling back the gains of Reconstruction, gutting voting rights, erasing Black history, dismantling civil rights protections, purging Black people from positions of power, and returning America to a racial hierarchy where whiteness is protected and Black existence is controlled.


Black people in America are only a couple of laws away from the plantation. Some people called that hyperbole. It is not hyperbole. It was historical awareness. Because Black progress in America has always been conditional in the minds of white supremacists. Every gain we made had to be forced through protest, bloodshed, organizing, litigation, and sacrifice, and every gain has always faced backlash from people who never accepted our humanity in the first place. The 14th Amendment is the foundation upon which modern civil rights protections stand. Birthright citizenship. Equal protection. Due process. Voting rights rulings. School desegregation. Anti-discrimination law. All of it flows from the legal recognition that Black people are fully citizens and fully human under the Constitution. And now powerful Republicans are openly fantasizing about undoing it.


I have absolutely no confidence that this racist Supreme Court will protect Black citizenship, Black voting rights, or Black humanity if given the opportunity to weaken them. This Court has already gutted the Voting Rights Act, enabled racial gerrymandering, weakened affirmative action, and signaled hostility toward every major civil rights protection won through the blood of our ancestors. So Black people need to stop treating this like politics as usual. This is not a game. This is not partisan disagreement. This is a fight over whether this country will continue moving toward democracy or openly embrace apartheid-style white nationalism. Our ancestors fought too hard, bled too much, marched too long, and died too young for us to sit comfortably while people in power openly discuss stripping away the very amendment that recognized our citizenship.

America is determined to drag black people backward, then we must be just as determined to resist. We must organize, educate, mobilize, vote, protest, litigate, build institutions, protect our communities, and prepare ourselves spiritually, politically, and economically for what is clearly coming. Because they are not hiding it anymore.a

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