I saw the excellent movie Ray a few weekends ago–about Ray Charles’s life. There’s a scene where as a young man he has to take a bus, and he has to sit in the back with the other blacks. Now this got me to thinking. Any modern liberal would say that if a bus line–even a private one–requires blacks to sit in the back and whites in the front, that this is racist and discriminatory, and should be outlawed.
Yet during the filming of Ray, isn’t this just what happened? The director set up a bus with a sign saying “Colored” and mounted it on one of the rear seats, and then told all the black actors to sit in the back, and the white ones in front.Yet liberals would not denounce this as racist. Why not? It’s indistinguishable from the other case mentioned above. The only difference is in the motivations of the the director, and the private bus line owners. But this means that racial discrimination is okay if it is well motivated. Does this mean that if some of the bus lines in the 1950s had “good motives” then it was okay?
Liberals make no sense.
11:19 am on November 16, 2004
