[116943] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cowards?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Elliott)
Tue Aug 24 04:07:35 1999
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:42:23 -0500
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From: Kevin Elliott <k-elliott@wiu.edu>
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At 13:34 -0700 08/23/99, Petro wrote:
>>>>What if you couldn't rent a hotel room if you wore a nose ring? What
>>>>if it were the only hotel in town?
>>
>>>Sleep in the car.
>>
>>So your advice to Rosa Parks would have been - "walk or buy a bicycle?"
No, my advice would be to protest the hell about it, boycott, make
noise, and generally annoy/disturb the business in question!
Recognizing that most of what was involved in the segregation of the
south was government supported/condoned discrimination and thus
blatantly unconstitutional (and an entirely separate issue). Why
should it be illegal for the owner of a business to pick and choose
those it wishes to deal with? How does the size of a business have
any affect on that issue? Now Ms. Parks also has the right to
protest, boycott, and generally raise a fuss. It wouldn't be the
first business that has dumb policies and it wouldn't be the first
business to be forced to change those policies because of complaints
from the public. Worst case scenario the business is driven out of
business because it refuses to serve it's customers effectively.
Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott <mailto:k-elliott@wiu.edu>
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"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting
victims of the darkness."
-- Justice William O. Douglas
