Don't care, still racist
Growing up in the Deep South not long after desegregation, it wasn’t hard to find people impacted by “separate but equal.” The effects are still being felt all these decades later, in fact, which is part of why the South’s educational system isn’t all that great comparatively.
It was a terrible idea then and it’s a terrible idea now.
But what if the “segregation” was purely voluntary? Does that make things less racist?
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