[quote name='dohdough']That logic is completely flawed considering the time and place.
This is what I said in another thread: You think that ending the war on drugs will stop institutional racism like Paul suggests? No. What he proposes would allow rampant discrimination worse then what we have now. The civil rights act of 1964 was less about eating at white establishments and more about access to political and economic enfranchisment of which they were actively denied. The "free market" didn't put those institutions under because THERE WAS NO ACCESS TO CAPITAL(for black people to act as a force in the market).
You say that the market will fix it, but you fail to acknowledge how the market was heavily leveraged IN FAVOR of whites and STRONGLY AGAINST black people. The market won't make corrections for people that are systematically not allowed to participate in it. This is why capitalism is
ed along with all of the right-wing harping about the free market and
ing bootstraps. It's all bullshit meant to keep certain segments of society disenfranchised.[/QUOTE]
sometimes you don't understand humour and that makes me sad, almost like the joke really is on you.
This is what I said in another thread: You think that ending the war on drugs will stop institutional racism like Paul suggests? No. What he proposes would allow rampant discrimination worse then what we have now. The civil rights act of 1964 was less about eating at white establishments and more about access to political and economic enfranchisment of which they were actively denied. The "free market" didn't put those institutions under because THERE WAS NO ACCESS TO CAPITAL(for black people to act as a force in the market).
You say that the market will fix it, but you fail to acknowledge how the market was heavily leveraged IN FAVOR of whites and STRONGLY AGAINST black people. The market won't make corrections for people that are systematically not allowed to participate in it. This is why capitalism is


sometimes you don't understand humour and that makes me sad, almost like the joke really is on you.