or a whites only swimming pool

yeah losing that legislation was a bad thing for Reconstruction but it's Congress's fault for passing it under the 14th Amendment

I don’t think any of us was born before the 1950’s to see any of that but yea it was a long time

You are an actual brainlet to say any of the things that happened during and before the civil rights movement towards blacks still goes on today.

>it just looks different

Let me get this straight then

the SCOTUS doesn't exist to legislate or make the most utilitarian decisions, it exists to interpret the Constitution, and the Constitution does not give Congress the right to legislate against private discrimination under the 14th

the good news is it does give them the right to do that under the Commerce Clause

which is what they used in the 60s

so a black child like Emmett Till being drug behind a truck because he was black is just as bad and the same as someone calling a black person a nigger or assuming a black person is going to steal

lt's the same because it's racism

This is your logic

under the Commerce Clause in 64

that was the major difference

the "racism" that exists today is a mere shell of what it used to be. To say it is as bad as the 1960's and before is such a ludicrous statement that even blacks that lived way back when they weren;t even allowed in the same restaraunt as whites, would disagree with you.

And if the US is such a racist clusterfuck then why not live in another country, or maybe a continent of blacks

You aren't even negating the points l made, you're just trying to dumb it down and say "racism still exists and we're still fighting what civil rights advocates did"

Even before l said that, you have not proved to me my points were invalid.

You pretty much just said, "yea they do exist"

l listed off some of the worst treatment blacks experienced in the early 20th century, and said that they do not occur today at all or not by the shear numbers they did then, and all you said was "yes they do"

The closest thing l can think of that most resembles segregation-era treatment of blacks is Rodney King's beating by LAPD in 1991.

for one thing, the 1875 act didn't even do anything. Nobody ever bothered to enforce it.

@Fred the Fish do you think whites should pay reparations for slavery and racism of the past

the other thing is that you don't need a mentality to justify overturning it, show me where in the 14th Amendment Congress is given the power to regulate private discrimination

Mord is right, the racism that exists today is nowhere near the level of the racism that existed 50 years ago

there's obviously still a negative legacy from segregation, but it's diminishing as time goes on

what kind of legislation do you even want to reduce it even further

@agag segregation of whites

yeah lol we need to protect black communities from gentrification

let's stop wypipo from moving into their communities

l mean on some college campuses the minority students have advocated for certain dorm areas to be only people of color

that's segregation

yeah I don't know how they don't realize the contradiction

@Fred the Fish do you think that we should be paying reparations for any injustice Black people have endured against white people? You’re playing an idealistic game that isn’t possible

Surely if you throw money at something it goes away and solves the problem once and for all

Yea totally

yeah we know we can't just free blacks from slavery and expect things to get better

that's why we passed Civil Rights legislation in the 60s

lf the government suddenly decided to write a 1 million dollar check to every black person in the US, in the 10 years not only would all that money be spent on material things, they would come around and say it wasn't enough and we'd be back to square one.

Exactly

I have seen people value reparations at $5 trillion