The Legal Perspective 0
Dick Polman:
Consider, for instance, the infamous Plessey v. Ferguson case. It all started in 1890, when the state of Louisiana passed a law requiring segregated train cars.
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Let’s look at the ruling. First, this passage: “A (state law) which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races – a distinction which is founded in the color of the two races, and which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by color – has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races.”
Now, this passage: “We (reject) the assumption that the enforced separation of the races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is…solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction on it.”
Sounds to me like those white male judges were partly influenced by their life experiences in a white supremacist era.”
In summary, you could say that the old white guys of the Republican Party are in Danae-al (click the image for a larger view):
More Danae-al here.
