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http://www.townhall.com/opinion/colu...27/173033.html
Sowell reminds us that with regard to Jim Crow *laws* (note the word *law*, not *custom*),
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Private owners of streetcar, bus, and railroad companies in the South lobbied against the Jim Crow laws while these laws were being written, challenged them in the courts after the laws were passed, and then dragged their feet in enforcing those laws after they were upheld by the courts.
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And this:
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People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.
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In other words, there wouldn't have even been a need for civil rights legislation and "bus boycotts" if the damn government hadn't created that environment in the first place. The fools who worship at the altar of govt mandates insist that libertarians are prescribing a recipe for the return of slavery and segregation and the like, when in fact these things have only existed through government fiat.
natedogg
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If you think there weren't business owners who would have denied service to blacks in the absence of laws you are crazy. Not all business owners are rational.