In a 5-4 Supreme Court decision, federal justices concede American institutions and citizens have buried racism; that we are at a post racial period in history as evidenced by the election of President Barack Obama. Consequently after it stripped a key section of the Voting Rights Act, states aggressively rushed to change voting rules. Some believe this and other public policies adversely affect the progressive moral shift in American cultural and democratic ideals; that the traditions of Jim Crow ethics have been exhumed. Residue examines the notion of twenty-first century "post-racism", and current American events that reveal two opposing Americas, from perspectives of a diverse public, that gets to the core of race and democracy. Perhaps this time around, Americas policy attacks on its citizens may not only be a so called, Black thing; but an All-American, twenty-first century radical phenomenon wherein the civil liberties of a growing, diverse and progressive moral majority are under siege.
—Charles S. Martin