re: #804 Obdicut

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Jim Crow laws were put in place with the support of the community. They were voted on by legislators elected by that community. They had the support of those communities. They were not handed down from on-high by ‘the government’.

You’re still missing the “why” they felt it necessary to regulate business dealings with blacks. If businesses were unwilling to deal with minorities there wouldn’t have been a need for a law. Government enforced segregation kept minorities as second class citizens for decades longer than it would have taken if they had stayed out of it in the first place. There are always going to be bigot business people but most of them go into business because they care about the color of your money, not your skin.

Secondly, after some Jim Crow laws were repealed people were still wary of dealing with blacks because the governments they funded refused to protect them.

In both cases the government was at fault. First by establishing segregation laws and secondly by not providing a basic service and a reason for their founding.