yeah!... so we should discriminate against the rich and powerful and protect the poor and powerless!!
that's the problem in a nutshell..... when you start down the road of anti-discrimination as we do, it simply turns into a battle of who to discriminate against, and who to protect.....and ot make it worse, it all ends up being partisan.
Republicans end up looking like they hate the poor and minorities.. democrats end up looking like they hate the rich and whites....
on this particular matter, I don't blame the politicians... I blame their bases... discrimination is what they want, and their vote is the currency they trade for it.
Problem is, YOUR solution results in the many becoming part of a permanent underclass, whereas MY solution brought us out of Jim Crow, into the modern nation we are today where (in most of America) interracial marriage is no big deal, having lots of friends from different ethnicities is not unusual.
Have you lived in segregation? I have. I remember walking down the street in Shaw, MS, where I graduated high school, seeing the ONLY doctor's office in town. The office had two doors, with the receptionist's office in the middle. Above each door were words chiseled in marble - one said "WHITE" and the other said "COLORED". The fact that they were completely painted over in Kelly green didn't help much when the chiseled words were a freaking inch deep. And yeah, the people obeyed the signs - and that's how it was.
The killer is that this was in 1984 - twenty freaking years AFTER passage of the Civil Rights Act, and I was home on leave from the Navy. If I'd had half a brain at the time, I would have called Time Magazine. But I was still racist at the time - and that's "just the way things were there."
I also went to a segregated school in the next county over, called Indianola Academy, for one year. It was a completely white school, and while it's had perhaps five black students total since I attended in 1976, Google it today and you can see for yourself that it's an all-white school now...in a county that's 71% black.
This is all in the MS Delta...where to this day I have yet to see an interracial marriage. Not because the blacks would refuse to marry whites, but because any white that dared to do so would be ostracized by his or her family. Maybe there are some...but I haven't seen one yet.
So that's the kind of world YOU want to live in. Thank you very much sir, but I've already lived in such a world, and it sucks. The ONLY people who support what you want are either completely ignorant of what it does a society (which I've seen first-hand, remember)...or are racist (which I was at one time, remember). In other words, one of us knows from hard-won experience what he's talking about...and it ain't you.