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To: coloradan

So what another the historic practice of all-white real estate covenants? That was simply allowing whites to live with whites, it was completely voluntary for the whites. Are you OK with that as a practice.


7 posted on 09/05/2016 8:43:18 AM PDT by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: Jack Black

Next they’ll ask for segregated classes. Or did I already miss that?
Would half black and raised white qualify?


11 posted on 09/05/2016 8:46:46 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Jack Black
So what another the historic practice of all-white real estate covenants? That was simply allowing whites to live with whites, it was completely voluntary for the whites. Are you OK with that as a practice.

People have the natural right to freedom of association. Whether or not being racist makes someone an a-hole is a different question than whether free individuals have an inherent right to be a-holes if that is their choice.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 needs to be revisited, because it grossly overstepped the boundaries of government power by prohibiting individual action.

Laws against racism and discrimination should be exclusively about limiting government power to discriminate and/and or force segregation with regard to the government policies, law enforcement, government institutions and facilities. The injustices of the Jim Crow era were legally enforced by the government, and the Jim Crow era laws needed to be eliminated.

But free individuals have a right to choose with whom they will or will not associate. If society wants to impose sanctions on racist a-holes, that's fine, as long as it's done socially (i.e. boycotts and shunning) and not legally.

Much of the government over reach we have seen in the past 50 years is due to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 being commandeered by the left to limit the rights of the people relating to pretty much all private activity, instead of being limited to curtailing the powers of the government.

If black people want to live exclusively with black people at private colleges, that is their right if the college chooses to adopt that policy. But that same right also must be recognized for all other races and ethnic groups as well.

24 posted on 09/05/2016 9:24:28 AM PDT by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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