This is not meant as a defense of segregation, but the point of segregation was not about sending a message or "insinuating" that non White people were not "good enough" to use the same facilities as White people. Segregation was simply the result of a misguided political belief system concerning the then purported "incompatibility" of the races to smoothly interact under a common civil umbrella which btw was initially imposed onto the South from the North by way of the new Northern based regimes running the defeated Confederate States during Reconstruction.
What I have never been able to understand is: if one feels that they are being slighted or discriminated by a given civil collectivity / society or regime, instead of using or depending on the same apparatus of the State which is oppressing one, why not simply create one's own civil collectivity / society or representatives. In other words: do not forget the historically relevant option of political or cultural secession.
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For the same reason Dems oppose vouchers for public schools. They only want the Black vote, they don't care for the welfare or wellbeing of African-Americans.
On the way out, a guy was leaving the outside stall and I asked him what it was all about; the grizzled, old black gentleman said, "Son, you'll learn soon enough..."
Kudos for Mr. Cain. I was proud to vote for him in our primaries.
If the AJC had a shred of legitimacy left this great article by an Atlantan would be on the front page of its politics section. It's good to hear from Herman again.