Racial Discrimination Against White Americans Has Been Institutionalized
Paul Craig Roberts- Why is racial separation worse than class separation? Why does one get legal remedy but not the other?
The 1896 Supreme Court Plessy decision, which gave us “separate but equal” is widely considered today to be incorrect. Legal scholars maintain that the private railroad company violated the Constitution by separating people in railway cars on the basis of race. Justice John Marshall Harlan’s dissent–“Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens”–is almost universally considered correct.
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