US Racial Discrimination History

Account for historic slavery, disenfranchisement, etc.

May I suggest reviewing the history of the civil rights movement? That sort of discrimination used to be normal in large parts of the US and was overcome through a combination of civil disobedience and legal challenges.

Go read an American history book. You seem to somehow be unaware of the existence of slavery and then Jim Crow laws.

Well, Jim Crow legislation was also a thing once.

Answers like this seem bizarrely naive of US history. Before racial discrimination was banned by law, there were entire thousand mile swaths of the country where black people couldn't get any level of basic service, couldn't buy a house. Saying it's within the rights of any individual service provider to do this ignores situations where they all think in exactly the same way. Individuals are subject to systematic problems introducing bias into their own thinking. It's not lik

The part you quoted was a rhetorical device, hence "start out". The poster went on to explain Jim Crow laws and other systemic discrimination against Black people up to at least 1971.

http://startouch.thestar.com/screens/003e50ae-8fe5-4e1f-be7e...Your simplistic views of history do not explain reality. Just because they weren't called Jim Crow laws doesn't mean that similar laws didn't exist.

Because life sucked for black people in the 60s and they managed to change the law?

You should go read up on the history of Jim Crow laws and come back, because it's clear you are lacking a huge chunk of context here.

Race wasn't protected in the fifties either, and yet few would argue that it only became oppressive when the laws were changed. Those who would support your argument are the very same you would evict from your holy hill!