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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
While I completely disagree with the racism on all fronts:
I hope the pool's decision is not struck down by the courts. It is a private institution that receives no tax dollars. It should "theoretically" be able to serve whoever it wants. The consumer (both white and black) can act in response to this. But it is a private institution and the government should not be able to have any say in whom it serves. Whether that will happen or not is another case. (And it won't.)
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I agree with that. Even the restaurant in the notorious Katzenbach v. McClung case (where the SCOTUS said that racial discrimination in places of public accommodation was a burden on interstate commerce) was able to avoid the effect of the court's pronouncement by becoming a private club which only admitted whites.
I'd think though that business would be pretty bad for a club openly discriminating against blacks. No one wants to be associated with that. That's probably part of why the private club has done a 180 on its decision. No doubt many members cancelled their memberships over this incident and would continue to do so until something was done (I would).