The US supreme court thinks racism is dead. It isn't

Voting activists at the US supreme court. ‘Quashing racist laws does not eliminate racism, only its explicit and codified enforcement.’ Photograph: MCT /Landov/Barcroft In 1999 apartheid's last leader, FW de Klerk, explained to me his motivation for writing an autobiography. "I wanted people to look at our history in its proper time frame. The same mistakes that we made were still being made in the United States and the ex-colonies. Then we carried them on for around 20 years longer. It was a time when we thought it would go away." De Klerk talked a lot of nonsense that morning, comparing South African apartheid to the EU and insisting it was him, not Nelson...