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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Which Waterfountain?

Ian Ayres

Few whites nowadays would drink from a "whites only" waterfountain if there was a non-discriminatory fountain next to it... but how far would you literally be willing to go to avoid taking a discriminatory benefit.

White waterfountains are now illegal. But a parallel question is now in place for heterosexuals who are deciding where to marry. Would you cross the street to avoid marrying in a heterosexuals only jurisdiction? Would you be willing to travel to Massachusetts?

Jennifer Brown and I discuss the new choices that Mass. marriage gave to heterosexuals in this oped from the New Haven Advocate.

Comments:

A judge in SW Virginia told me that when as a child he first saw a water fountain marked "colored," he ran over to see what color it was, only to be disappointed.
 

Better: I grew up in a lily white suburb of Detroit, and when I had my first black room mate in college, I complemented him on his tan. LOL

If an area is white enough that you [i]never[/i] meet anybody black, ironicly, racist attitudes may fail to be transmitted simply because the subject never has occasion to be mentioned during your childhood.
 

The worst experiences make the best stories.
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