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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (75577)5/23/2010 6:42:34 PM
From: TimF   of 149317
 
Take away the Civil Rights Act's application to private businesses, and we could see the return of segregation in public accommodations.

No we wouldn't. Sure here and there you might find a couple of places, but it wouldn't be a significant factor. Part of that is because the country is less racist than it used to be, so less people would want to act this way. Part of it is because its less tolerant of such racism, so businesses would typically suffer severely if they acted that way. And part of it goes back to the fact that we had Jim Crow laws, largely because of the fact that many businesses did not want to act in the racist ways that some politicians and voters wanted them to. Absent laws mandating the segregation you would not have seen nearly as much of it. Even in a much more racist society than today, privately deciding to exercise racial segregation costs businesses money. Even businesses run by racists, often will not want to do so because they don't want to, or even can't afford to, lose the money. But they can afford to do it (and have to whether they want to or not), if the government passes a law saying that the businesses have to racially segregate.

"Public accommodations" are not public, they are private. They are owned by their private owners. Its their right to decide who to associate with in their privately owned business just as its their right to decide who to associate with in their privately owned home.

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