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 … Continue reading The Back of the Bus