--- In [email protected], "hrearden_hr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Someone could open a restaurant that serves Blacks only and reap all > the business from Black people in the community.
What if no restaurant did open to serve the Black community? What about bi-racial and multi-racial people? Do we need to have segregated places of business by race? If the government gets involved as it has done with civil rights, then you have a more integrated society with less racism, like the way the country is going right now. If there were no government intervention as Libertarianism proposes, then we might have segregation, a sort of self-imposed apartheid. Is that what Libertarians want? The opposite of the > senario you mention could happen as well. A business might loose non- > Black customers by discriminating against Blacks in protest of such > a policy. I heard of a real life situation in which a gas station > owner in a small town in the south hired a Black man to pump gas for > customers( this was back when there was no such thing a self- serve) > and many white customers told the owner that they would buy their > gas elsewhere if he did not fire the Black man. The owner lost > customer and was about to reluctantly fire the man when a White > woman asked him if he would continue to let the man work for him if > business picked up. She told him that she could get him some > customers. The owner agreed to hold off on firing the man. The woman > told her friends and people she knew who were not racist that they > should buy gas from the owner's station. She brought in enough > business to make up for the customers the station owner lost. > As I mentioned in my post, however, what if the business is in a small town that is racist. What if the business owner stood to make more profit from his regular customers by discriminating? > Also, if a person has a strong objection to eating at a place that > serves Black people the law will not make a difference. They would > stop eating there if the place served Blacks regardless of whether > the law required that Blacks be served or not. I live in a state > that does not allow smoking in restaurants. Eventhough it is the law > many smokers stopped eating out because of the law. They don't > sympathize by continuing to eat out as much because they understand > that it is the law. That makes no difference to them. > Yes it would make a difference and it has. If a person does not want to eat a restaurant that serves black people, that person would need to stay home. Because every restaurant is required to serve all races regardless of how they may feel or think. There are no completely white restaurants anymore, thanks to civil rights and government intervention. Anyone have any ideas or thoughts that can show me that Libertarianism does not lead to racist, segregated societies? And don't say that the market can fix it without reading what I have written above and without some new points. I am not bashing Libertarianism as I agree with most of the Party's points, but I can not become a member without resolving the civil rights issue. Thanks. David ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
