The moral of the story from Michigan is: What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive ourselves into thinking we can gracefully ignore the great principle resoundingly affirmed in 1896 by Justice John Marshall Harlan’s dissent in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision. In this, the court held that government actions can take cognizance of race if the resulting treatment of racial groups is “separate but equal.”
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:15:19 +0000