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So then your only defense against prejudice is popular opinion. Well what if prejudice is the popular opinion? What's your answer if Jim Crow isn't a law, but simply what people do? Keep in mind, before separate but equal, a lot of businesses simply wouldn't serve blacks at all. Whole segments of their own communities were closed to them. You're saying that's perfectly fine because there's no official law about it. That's extremely short sighted.
You can't force people to believe a certain way, you can't make them not run their mouths, you can't force what they do with their property so long as they aren't infringing upon the rights of others. It's an artifact of freedom. People will do stupid crap, people will believe stupid crap, and we on whole must act intelligently enough to still affect the system. I'm not saying these actions are fine, but thought control is something that's not proper arena of government.