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7 JRGE 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/jlorcgd7 and id is 1 raw text is: TOURO LAW JOURNAL OF RACE, GENDER, & ETHNICITY & BERKELEY JOURNAL OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LAW & POLICY JACKALS, TALL SHIPS, AND THE ENDLESS FOREST OF LIES: FOREWORD TO SYMPOSIUM ON THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT IN THE WAKE OF SHELBY COUNTY V. HOLDER ANTHONY PAUL FARLEY* Chacales que el chacal rechazaria, piedras que el cardo seco morderia escupiendo, viboras que las viboras odiaran!1 - Pablo Neruda, Explico Algunas Cosas Voting is the language of representative democracy.2 Language is life. Disenfranchisement is violence. Violence is where language loses its meaning. The violence is fatal. Black has been the mark of violent exclusion from American life. Shelby County v. Holder is part of the storied violence of *Anthony Paul Farley, Andrew Jefferson Endowed Visiting Chair in Trial Advocacy at Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law (spring 2015), James & Mary Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law (fall 2014), and James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law School. I thank Dean Patricia Salkin, Associate Dean Deborah Waire Post, and Professor Deseriee Kennedy at the Touro Law Center for inviting me to host this conference at their institution. I thank Blake Morant and Paulette 'P.J. Morant for their surprise appearance. I thank Fred Brewington, Matthew Charity, Phyllis Goldfarb, David Kow, Randy McLaughlin, Sarah Sally Robinson, Janet Steverson, Christian Sundquist, and Robert Ward for their presentations at the Touro Law Center workshop on March 20-21, 2014, and for their essays. I thank Deborah Archer, Sahar Aziz, Bridgette Baldwin, Patricia Broussard, Matthew Charity, Olympia Duhart, Pamela Edwards, Ifetayo Flannery, Sarah Jane Forman, Phyllis Goldfarb, Peter Halewood, J. Corey Harris, C6sar Cuauht6moc Garcia Hernandez, Pantea Javidan, Paula Johnson, Vik Kanwar, David Kow, Margaret Kwoka, Ravi Malhotra, Abra Mason, Martha McCluskey, Steven Morrison, Janai Nelson, Sarah Robinson, Wendy Scott, Sudha Setty, Janet Steverson, Christian Sundquist, Andre Smith, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Charles Walker, and Robert Ward for their essays. I thank Vik Kanwar of the faculty of the Jindal Global Law School in Delhi for contributing his artwork along with an essay. I thank Deborah Post, again, this time for her riveting documentary film about Howard Glickstein's contributions to the Voting Rights Act. I thank Dean David Brennen at the University of Kentucky College of Law and Dean Dannye Holley of Thurgood Marshall School of Law for their support of my work during the 2014-2015 academic term. I thank the editors of the Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity and the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy for their remarkable joint effort. Finally, as always, I thank Astrid and Maria Grahn- Farley. 1 PABLO NERUDA, Explico Algunas cosas / I Explain Some Things, in THE ESSENTIAL NERUDA: SELECTED POEMS 65 (City Lights Publishers: 2004) (Jackals the jackal would reject, stones the dry thistle would bite then spit out, vipers the vipers would despise!). 2 Anthony Paul Farley, Lacan & Voting Rights, 13 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND HUMANITIES 283 (2001). 1

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