SmokeyDan
Well-Known Member
I think that would occur in 90% or more of the communities in the country, even in the south.Thanks for the suggestion, LF. The article did indeed answer my question.
Since Goebbels refuses to produce the smoking gun to justify his public lynching of Mr. Jensen, I followed the link. Here is a quote from Mr. Jensen:
In an interview with the Rapid City Journal, Phil Jensen stood by those beliefs, saying, “If someone was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and they were running a little bakery for instance, the majority of us would find it detestable that they refuse to serve Blacks, and guess what? In a matter of weeks or so that business would shut down because no one is going to patronize them.”
One more noteworthy point: Rand Paul was not even mentioned in the article, thus making our resident propagandist look like RIU's version of Baghdad Bob.
LULZ
However, there are two problems. There are some communities that would have enough members that didn't care, or the flip side have enough enthusiastic racists supporting the business out of zeal, where these businesses wouldn't close.
There are also minorities that do not garner as much sympathy from the general population as blacks do. For instance, I could see business here in my town refusing to serve Muslims wearing traditional clothing (burka) and the like.
I think that business owners should have pretty substantial leeway in who they want to do business with, I don't agree in purposeless discrimination.