Rand Paul and Barry Goldwater were right. The Civil Rights Act was an enormous overreach. It should have been limited to government-imposed discrimination. Period.
wardaddy: Your opinion please?
Rand Paul and Barry Goldwater were right. The Civil Rights Act was an enormous overreach. It should have been limited to government-imposed discrimination. Period.
wardaddy: Your opinion please?
How about William Buckley? I remember a remark of his about school bussing ( remember school bussing ? ) saying words to the effect that many were thinking that this had crossed some kind of line, "but there are those of us that thought this line had been crossed a long time ago." That remark was an epiphany for me.
And by the way, what about school bussing? There were all these court imposed plans and giant upheavels, and the whole thing just faded away, lost to the memory of the public, the courts, and everybody. What does that tell you about the rule of law?
Yes, and Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell would agree that government imposed discrimination was the problem. Once the government can force you to do business (or not do business) with certain people, it can expand that dictate to any number of groups or kinds of people. Freedom of association means what it says, or it should.
As for minorities not being able to eat at restaurants, etc. that would not happen (except where government prohibited businesses from serving certain people, as with Jim Crow laws). Business owners who pursued such a policy on their own would soon find themselves out of business. The free market is the best promoter of equal opportunity.
The same should apply to hiring and firing employees. Let the market work!