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re: Is MLK's Civil Rights Act Constitutional?

Posted on 12/31/22 at 4:23 pm to
Posted by nealnan8
Atlanta
Member since Oct 2016
2200 posts
Posted on 12/31/22 at 4:23 pm to
"Speaking specifically about anything that demands a private business behave in a specific way, or requires quotas based on skin color to be Constitutional?"
... serious question here: do you believe a private business should have the right to refuse service to someone based solely on their race or skin color?
Posted by Flats
Member since Jul 2019
23421 posts
Posted on 12/31/22 at 4:24 pm to
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do you believe a private business should have the right to refuse service to someone based solely on their race or skin color?


Absolutely.
Posted by AggieHank86
Texas
Member since Sep 2013
42941 posts
Posted on 12/31/22 at 4:44 pm to
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do you believe a private business should have the right to refuse service to someone based solely on their race or skin color?
Under our constitutional system, the federal government has only those powers assigned to it by the constitution, and the constitution does not give the federal government power to dictate to individuals with whom they must do business.

Whether a state government has that power is a different question entirely.

In either case, the market certainly has the power to punish any business which chooses to display such overt racism.

That hypothetical ER physician would probably be violating the Hippocratic oath by refusing to treat that child, and he should lose his license as a result. But the federal government should not compel him. That is simply not the role of the federal government in our system.

The federal government simply does not have the power constitutionally to do everything that “seems like a good idea.“. The notion that the federal government has that much power is what got us into the current mess to begin with.
This post was edited on 12/31/22 at 4:49 pm
Posted by NC_Tigah
Member since Sep 2003
126479 posts
Posted on 12/31/22 at 4:54 pm to
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do you believe a private business should have the right to refuse service to someone based solely on their race or skin color?
... or gender and bathroom choice? How about the right to refuse business to ex-shoplifters?

Posted by Strannix
District 11
Member since Dec 2012
49782 posts
Posted on 1/1/23 at 12:38 am to
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: do you believe a private business should have the right to refuse service to someone based solely on their race or skin color?



Absolutely, why would you want to visit a racist store anyway.

"Build your own restaurant/hardware/store/department store whatever.

That's what conservatives are told.

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