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Article: Racial discrimination is wrong for everyone: ; Judges have forgotten that equality should be the goal
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 8, 2009
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WHILE the recent Supreme Court decision in the New Haven
firefighters' case will be welcome news to those who don't think
that a gross injustice is OK when those on the receiving end are
white, the reasoning behind the 5 to 4 decision is a painful
reminder that the law is still tangled in a web of assumptions,
evasions and contradictions when it comes to racial issues.
Nor have these problems been clarified with the passage of time.
On the contrary, the growing complexity and murkiness of civil
rights law over the years recalls the painful saying: "Oh, what a
tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."
The original Civil Rights Act of 1964 was very straightforward in
forbidding ...