OK restaurant won’t serve ‘freaks,’ ‘f*ggots,’ the disabled, welfare recipients

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I don't even know how this is legal.

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Cool. I'm stressed out because I have been trying to build relationships with certain classmates and seem only to be scorned. Should I have them thrown in jail for "stressing me" out?

I really, really wanted to write some crude remark in response to this, but I know that's neither helpful nor will it allow you to see things in a different way, so I won't.

Sanchez, to put it bluntly, institutionalized racism is far more damaging to people than you not being able to get along with your peers.  Now I'm willing to guess, and by all means correct me if I'm wrong, that you live in a pleasant, fairly affluent, fairly tame neighborhood with all things considered.  Not all people have that luxury, and if you happen to be non-white, chances of you enjoying that are quite slim.  Surely you can understand that living in an environment where social and economic conditions are hostile to your kind is a bit different than what you experience?  After all, blacks have to deal with the exact same social pressures as you, plus the stigmas that are associated with race.

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Cool. I'm stressed out because I have been trying to build relationships with certain classmates and seem only to be scorned. Should I have them thrown in jail for "stressing me" out?

Sanchez, to put it bluntly, institutionalized racism is far more damaging to people than you not being able to get along with your peers.  Now I'm willing to guess, and by all means correct me if I'm wrong, that you live in a pleasant, fairly affluent, fairly tame neighborhood with all things considered.  Not all people have that luxury, and if you happen to be non-white, chances of you enjoying that are quite slim.  Surely you can understand that living in an environment where social and economic conditions are hostile to your kind is a bit different than what you experience?  After all, blacks have to deal with the exact same social pressures as you, plus the stigmas that are associated with race.

I see you didn't read the last paragraph of my last post. A restaurant owner in Oklahoma is not part of "institutionalized racism." African Americans in my neighborhood (btw, I live on a quiet, almost exclusively white street that happens to be in the heart of the African American corner of my town) and I don’t see any “whites only” locations. I don’t see African Americans sitting in segregated I-HOPs. This form of racism is largely dead.

Behold.


New York.


Detroit.


San Diego.


Chicago.

Is forced segregation gone?  Yes.  De facto segregation is alive and well and those separations still have meaning to them.  These maps may not be racist in and of themselves, but they illustrate an ongoing problem.

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I obviously don't disagree with you that these issues need to be addressed, but simply enforcing a decades-old law by prosecuting the owner of this restaurant hardly distracts from them.  He may not be the cause of the problem, but he is a symptom of it.