The presence of the law indicates that without the law some people could not be forced to behave in the way the law seeks to enforce. As such, since there are laws once established to enforce segregation, that means some people chose to serve everyone and that Americans were less racist before those laws than they were because of them.
The presence of segregated counters or segregated restaurants means that some restauranteurs, streetcar operators, and school officials refused to segregate until the government forced them to. Why would some people want to serve everyone? It's sa matter of simple economics: the place that makes no distinctions gets the most business, like Wal-Mart, where you can see customers from every socio-economic status side by side in line. Like all regulations, it was geared to protect businesses whose owners were racist from going out of business.
Governmental regulations helped us endure, then embrace a world separated on race. Would fewer laws make us less racist? I think so. We have spent decades trying to enforce equal opportunity by law. Let us now try liberty.
The presence of segregated counters or segregated restaurants means that some restauranteurs, streetcar operators, and school officials refused to segregate until the government forced them to. Why would some people want to serve everyone? It's sa matter of simple economics: the place that makes no distinctions gets the most business, like Wal-Mart, where you can see customers from every socio-economic status side by side in line. Like all regulations, it was geared to protect businesses whose owners were racist from going out of business.
Governmental regulations helped us endure, then embrace a world separated on race. Would fewer laws make us less racist? I think so. We have spent decades trying to enforce equal opportunity by law. Let us now try liberty.
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