Saturday, August 21, 2010

What Supreme Court case allowed private businesses to discriminate based on race and color?

The Bill of Rights guarantees that ';all men are created equal'; so you can't treat people as substandard citizens because of color or anything else.


But the Constitution also give individual freedom, so somebody can make the argument - ';Well, this is my coffee shop and I don't want to serve Jews or Blacks here'; which a lot of people would do if they could, but it's in violation of the Bill of Rights so it's not allowable.


But some things like who you rent to become pretty hard to regulate. Black people even who are professionals have a notoriously hard time renting apartments in white neighborhoods - and that sucks doesn't it?What Supreme Court case allowed private businesses to discriminate based on race and color?
None, in fact it's specifically forbidden to discriminate based on race, creed or color.

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