[Bubba Ho-Tep]

First off, that's not the fountain in the Niagara Falls case, but I guess they all look the same to you.

Second, are you really going to make a moral equivalence argument between a truck driver taping a hand lettered sign above a water fountain as a dumb joke and real, police enforced segregation of public facilities?

[bushpilot1]

‘WHITES ONLY’ SIGN FOUND IN NIAGARA FALLS DRINKING FOUNTAIN
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NIAGARA FALLS: A NEW SIGN OF RACISM

By Rick Forgione

Niagara Gazette
August 20, 2008

[bushpilot1]

[bushpilot1]

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerarchives/2009/02/leisure_activities_remained_qu.html

“Wiltse found that blacks and whites routinely swam together in the late 1800s and early 1900s. That changed when the migration of large numbers of rural Southern blacks to Northern states triggered a squeamishness among whites over sharing a pool with them.

The professed concern appeared to involve hygiene, and a notion that poor blacks coming from a farming background would have lower standards of cleanliness. Even in public schools, swimming remained segregated long after all other scholastic activities were integrated.”

[bushpilot1]

A northern state.