Fox News poll on civil rights law

[jackschmittusa]

Amused

You're wrong on the separate but equal being forced on any business. It was just another way to discriminate if you chose to. You were completely free to open all of your facilities to all people.

I never saw a "whites only" or a "colored only" sign till I was in Louisiana the first time in '66. Never saw it in Ohio or Pennsylvania for as long ago as I can remember.

 

[Amused]

Amused

You're wrong on the separate but equal being forced on any business. It was just another way to discriminate if you chose to. You were completely free to open all of your facilities to all people.

I never saw a "whites only" or a "colored only" sign till I was in Louisiana the first time in '66. Never saw it in Ohio or Pennsylvania for as long ago as I can remember.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

 

[CrossFyer]

If businesses should be kept from discriminating, how should insurance companies (auto, health, etc) handle situations where one segment of the population is more risky that others?

I could see gender differences, age differences, etc playing a role in who they want to serve and how much they want to charge.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Amused

I am the one who is wrong, as I see after reading your reference.

I made assumptions based on my own experience when it was voluntary for businesses to do "separate, but equal".

Don't know why, but I had it in my mind that is was only mandatory in schools in the South.