HappySqurriel said:
I think why you think this approach is crazy is because you make the assumption that the status quo would have been preserved in the south. Laws that encouraged or enforced systemic segregation would need to be eliminated, and all institutions or organizations that received government funding would be forced to integrate; because the government has no right to discriminate against its citizens. While it wouldn’t have the immediate impact of government forced integration, as more and more businesses integrated public sentiment would move more and more towards integration; and segregation in the south would have (mostly) eliminated itself. |
Well it's true that segregation would have a much harder time with the Feds keeping state, county, and municipal governments in line. But regarding segregation needing reinforcement, you can say the same thing about racism I believe, but that hasn't stopped people from being racist. Segregation is just much easier to see, and to stop. If people hadn't been stopping them, lots of people and places wouldn't have stopped.
McDonald's gets government funding?
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