Americans recognize that their Liberty has been diminished
over the decades. The emergence of the Libertarian Party in the 1970s, the
Campaign for Liberty in 2008, the Tea Party in 2009, Glen Beck’s 9/12 Program
and the Trump election in 2016 is evidence of that.
As the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was being debated, Senator
Barry Goldwater said: ‘You can’t legislate morality’. But Southern States
needed to end their segregation laws.
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that
enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in
the states of the
former Confederate States of
America, starting in 1896 with a "separate but equal" status for
African Americans in railroad cars.
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The Jim Crow laws were evil and
ignorant and failed to recognize the similarities between the races. But the
federal government had added unconstitutional activities that had “unintended
consequences”. When schools were desegregated, they broke up Black neighborhood
schools. Welfare laws destroyed the Black families. When businesses were
desegregated, Black-owned businesses disappeared. Desegregation of private
businesses like hotels and restaurants allowed Blacks access to necessary
services, but when government mandated desegregation in private businesses it
crossed the line and business owners no longer had unfettered “freedom of association”.
The federal government had already
desegregated employment for government employees. The Civil Rights Act also
ended discrimination in employment for all private businesses and that was a
good thing. Americans would learn that minorities had abilities. But the law ignored individual differences,
allowed employment mistakes and set up an “entitlement mentality”. Too many
Blacks had been encouraged to be angry and violent and demand that everybody
had to put up with them. Companies had become sloppy with their “Performance
Appraisals” and gave inaccurate ratings that resulted in expensive settlements.
At the same time, wise business consultants like J Edwards Deming were telling
us not to remove the joy from work.
Most Employment Lawyers were not
helpful and too many were “regulatory zealots”. I picked my lawyers carefully.
I also read the law and continued to use employment tests to ensure that
finalists were competent. I had no problems and the workforce was grateful.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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