So a sitting South Dakota lawmaker recently voiced his belief that businesses should be able to discriminate against people of color. Obviously this guy saw the recent Supreme Court ruling as a green light to go full racist -- and more and more openly racist/bigoted people are feeling more embolden to run for office (mainly as Republicans).
so my question is -- How many people here wish the Civil Rights bill was never passed?
Because essentially, to try to argue that businesses should be allowed to discriminate on the basis of race is saying you are against the Civil Rights Act.
From the article:
In an interview with the Leader, Clark said he believed that business owners should be able to turn away certain customers if they would otherwise violate their religious beliefs.
"If it’s truly his strongly based belief, he should be able to turn them away," Clark told the Leader. "People shouldn’t be able to use their minority status to bully a business."
It's stunning to me that an elected state lawmaker- no matter what the state - can be so ignorant as to not know what the Civil Rights Act is and does.
I'm not surprised. It don't find it stunning at all.
I see it as typical for conservatives.
What I am is horrified that the man was elected. He will probably be reelected too.
Hate is rampant now in America. The floodgates were opened with trump and now even more with that supreme court ruling.
Discrimination to any group of people is wrong and unconstitutional.
Our supreme court ruled decades ago that if you go into business with the public then you do business with all of the public. I agree with that ruling. Everyone pays taxes. Everyone contributed to the infrastructure that the business people rely on to make money. So everyone should be included.
Things are getting very bad here in America for everyone who isn't white, male, conservative, christian and heterosexual.
We are no longer the United States of America.