OhIsee.Then
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From Shrubnoses post: "STOSSEL: Totally. I'm in total agreement with Rand Paul. You can call it public accommodation, and it is, but it's a private business. And if a private business wants to say, "We don't want any blond anchorwomen or mustached guys," it ought to be their right. Are we going to say to the black students' association they have to take white people, or the gay softball association they have to take straight people? We should have freedom of association in America."
Again: Here is the example: I was in Mississippi in ’68 where the signs were still posted. An example was at the Greyhound station with men’s and women’s rest rooms inside black out house out the back. So, was Greyhound doing what it wanted to do for its Black customers because of corporate standards? No. Also, the Black Airmen were regularly attacked off base with no Mississippi law enforcement follow up. Even the Law Enforcement business had freedom to do business with only those they wanted to.
It was local government and ‘culture’ that over ruled what the private business wanted to do.
Is that what we want to get back too?
Again: Here is the example: I was in Mississippi in ’68 where the signs were still posted. An example was at the Greyhound station with men’s and women’s rest rooms inside black out house out the back. So, was Greyhound doing what it wanted to do for its Black customers because of corporate standards? No. Also, the Black Airmen were regularly attacked off base with no Mississippi law enforcement follow up. Even the Law Enforcement business had freedom to do business with only those they wanted to.
It was local government and ‘culture’ that over ruled what the private business wanted to do.
Is that what we want to get back too?
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