re: #811 RogueOne

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.

Some businesses were. A minority. Especially businesses that were themselves owned by minorities.

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.

Who is ‘they’? The people enacting these laws were elected by the people in the community to make those laws. So how exactly does it work in your mind that the racist assholes who elected racist assholes would not have been racist assholes if the racist assholes they’d elected hadn’t made these laws?

Secondly, after some Jim Crow laws were repealed people were still wary of dealing with blacks because the governments they funded refused to protect them.

Huh?

In both cases the government was at fault.

And who elected that government? Random people from elsewhere, or the asshole racists in the communities themselves?

Seriously, your thinking on this can’t be this shallow, can it?