Plessy v Ferguson, 1896… 129 years of wrong application of force by government against white people and in favor of black people. It’s just now been declared illegal in a ruling in Ames v. Ohio. Black people do not face any barriers to their actions that aren’t faced by people of any other race so the unequal treatment of white people in favor of black people will have to stop. This is a major achievement for justice although there will never be justice for the billions of instances of unfavorable treatment of whites by the force of government. Will new forms of discrimination begin? Probably because people are endlessly inventive so those who are not equal by nature will continue to shout “Racism” whenever unequal results happen and they will happen because people aren’t equal. The Constitution requires equal treatment to make sure treatment isn’t purposely discriminatory but nature itself does not provide equal treatment. One obvious proof is that men are bigger than women. That doesn’t discriminate against women or men. It simply is. Mountains are higher than plains. Men are larger than women. Justice needs to take nature into account especially when the law is being used to force behavior. .
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