06-26-2018, 01:15 PM
(06-26-2018, 01:13 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Which is the way it should be, IMHO.
Jim Crow laws were written to be neutral on their face. Slavery wasn't based on race, at least when it came to policy. Just sayin'. I mean, this ruling isn't surprising to me because the courts have been ruling this way for a couple of decades, now, but if they had been ruling like this in the decades prior then the civil rights movement would not have succeeded.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR