On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Harry Penner wrote: > Actually the racism-in-America thing is a particularly bad example of > what you're trying to assert. Assuming you're talking about the Civil > Rights Act, it was enacted at least in part to override southern Jim > Crow laws which codified discrimination. In other words, in at least > some states the law actually *prevented* employers, service providers, > restaurants, etc from treating blacks equally regardless of what > companies wanted to do, be it good or be it bad... didn't it? I don't think so. Mike