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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
NPR ^ | Updated March 20, 2025 3:31 PM ET | Selena Simmons-Duffin

Posted on 03/21/2025 4:35:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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Murray, the law professor, says racial segregation is not as far away in history as it may seem. She remembers a trip to Washington, D.C., in 1985, when her father, a Jamaican immigrant, took her to Woodward & Lothrop, a department store where he had worked when he'd been a student at Howard University.

She'd thought he had been a salesman at the store, which closed in 1995. "He's like, 'No, no, no, I only worked in the back because Black people weren't allowed to be on the sales floor,'" she recalls. When it comes to segregation in America, she says, "it's not far removed at all."

1985? Forty years ago?

Never give up the con, right National Propaganda Radio?

1 posted on 03/21/2025 4:35:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Except all-black gatherings have been accepted.


2 posted on 03/21/2025 4:38:14 PM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Also, the contracts no longer specifically prohibit
shackles, handcuffs, chains, and whips to be used on employees.


3 posted on 03/21/2025 4:43:40 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It need not be stipulated in the contract because it is in any case illegal.


4 posted on 03/21/2025 4:44:07 PM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The left is outraged because of the dire need to spell out that drinking fountains are not to be segregated in 2025. (Sarcasm)


5 posted on 03/21/2025 4:50:16 PM PDT by plain talk
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Haven’t blacks been whining for segregated “safe spaces” on college campuses for years - and in many cases getting them?


6 posted on 03/21/2025 4:51:18 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’d like to cancel my taxpayer subscription to NPR…..


7 posted on 03/21/2025 4:52:07 PM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ll turn 60 in several years and don’t remember any segregation. Yes blacks and whites might self-segregate but that’s due to personal preference. No business had a no backs or no whites policy.


8 posted on 03/21/2025 4:54:20 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tampon Tim said the DoE ended segregation in 1979 and now it’s coming back.


9 posted on 03/21/2025 4:57:24 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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That WASNT 1985. That was more like 1965!

She was referring to her FATHER working in an earlier day and age!

So no, it’s at least ‘60s!

And I knew Woodies well. It was in Kolumbia Mall when it first opened 1971 and no way would morally superior Kolumbia have such segregation. Nevermind my whole life, I never noticed any hiding of black workers. That includes the ‘70s.

What duplicitous garbage.


10 posted on 03/21/2025 4:58:15 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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When did you stop beating your wife, Harry?


11 posted on 03/21/2025 4:59:22 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Yeah, I’m pretty sure general law already covers that.

Frankly, not that I care so much. I believe in the freedom of association.


12 posted on 03/21/2025 5:00:17 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What nonsense.

All propaganda all the time.


13 posted on 03/21/2025 5:04:25 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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I’m about to turn 62 - born and raised in Georgia. My first grade teacher was a wonderful black woman. There were black children in nearly every class I ever attended, and many black teachers through the years. It’s time these idiots let this go.


14 posted on 03/21/2025 5:13:47 PM PDT by Freedom_Isn't_Free (in fact, it isn't even cheap)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This may have been done so as not to give the wokesters the language they need to bring a law suit because they were excluded from using the wrong toilets and lockers.


15 posted on 03/21/2025 5:15:42 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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You aren’t even 60 yet, many of us here at FR remember segregation and some watched as cities like Houston were transformed overnight by forced instant integration.


16 posted on 03/21/2025 5:27:40 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NPR gaslighter Dindu Duffin.


17 posted on 03/21/2025 5:36:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Repeal The 17th

Lots of stupid articles being published.

Heavy competition, but this one may just be the stupidest.


18 posted on 03/21/2025 5:40:07 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Trump trumps Hate)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Pity, those can be great morale boosters.


19 posted on 03/21/2025 5:50:02 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All private facilities should have the right to deny service to whoever they want.


20 posted on 03/21/2025 6:12:22 PM PDT by sipow
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