US laws against racial discrimination?

[Duke]

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basically in the U.S. it is only okay to judge people based on race when they are white. If they arent white then u cant judge them based on race, because then ur a racist. I know its a double standard here in the U.S. but thats just the way it is.

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totally agreed, if u call a blck person the n word they wanna kill u, but they can call themselves that all day without thinking second about it

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No, if you're actually their friend they don't care what you call them. If you're an outsider (which you are, since you think like this), then they assume that you're attempting to be derogatory.

[DrewDevil]

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US Constitution.

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Wrong, oh so wrong. Anti-discrimination laws, in fact, are arguably unconstitutional, because they abridge the first amendment right of free assembly. There were a couple of SCt cases about this in the wake of the Civil Rights Act.

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well it all depends on what exactly you mean by discrimination. It's not illegal to choose to only associate with one particular race on a personal level - this was and still is protected by freedom of assembly.

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Men's only golf and country clubs are practically extinct now as the result of lawsuits... judges and juries were finding against them despite the clear First A. protections.

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any business that participates in interstate commerce (like 99.99% of businesses do, it's almost impossible to avoid) are subject to regulation under the commerce clause of the constitution - this is why the civil rights act of 1964 is constitutional. It only attempts to regulate businesses involved in interstate commerce.

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"Interstate Commerce" was the Supreme Court's legal justification for ruling the Civil Rights Act constitutional, but if you read the cases you know they pretty much made it up. It was a "legal fiction," as my con law prof referred to it.

The cases basically said something like, "While it's true that this hamburger stand is in the middle of nowhere in rural Georgia and they've never had a customer from anywhere but within walking distance, the stand 'might have' or 'probably' bought some of its condiments from an out-of-state supplier.... ergo interstate commerce.

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the feds will not come after to you if you have a lemonade stand and refuse to hire blacks, as long as all of your water, sugar, and lemons, and wood and stuff for the stand, and your bank that you deposit in, are all produced and bought within your state. Most (all?) states will though.

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And rest assured, the feds would come after you even if all your dealings were intra-state. Whether it would be constitutional is another question.

[BCPVP]

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"Interstate Commerce" was the Supreme Court's legal justification for ruling the Civil Rights Act constitutional, but if you read the cases you know they pretty much made it up. It was a "legal fiction," as my con law prof referred to it.

The cases basically said something like, "While it's true that this hamburger stand is in the middle of nowhere in rural Georgia and they've never had a customer from anywhere but within walking distance, the stand 'might have' or 'probably' bought some of its condiments from an out-of-state supplier.... ergo interstate commerce.

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Or they can use the crazy logic of Wickard v. Filburn. The commerce clause is now the "Congress can do damn near anything clause".

[econophile]

this site has good info about anti-discrimination labor laws

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html

[ClevelandWasp]

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"Interstate Commerce" was the Supreme Court's legal justification for ruling the Civil Rights Act constitutional, but if you read the cases you know they pretty much made it up. It was a "legal fiction," as my con law prof referred to it.

The cases basically said something like, "While it's true that this hamburger stand is in the middle of nowhere in rural Georgia and they've never had a customer from anywhere but within walking distance, the stand 'might have' or 'probably' bought some of its condiments from an out-of-state supplier.... ergo interstate commerce.

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Or they can use the crazy logic of Wickard v. Filburn. The commerce clause is now the "Congress can do damn near anything clause".

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The case about the dude who grew wheat for his pigs? Stop giving me con law flashbacks!

[Jbrochu]

I think the case law against discrimination all at some point are supported from some combination of the following:

- US Constitution
- Reconstruction Acts (14th and 15th Amendments)
- Civil Rights Act

[whereismyluck]

My Dad is a N%$^# so what are ya goona do about it kodothebear.