Riginslinger,
No, I do not think that "it is improper for the greater society to move to try to change these impositions".
No, I do not "think the constitution prevents them from doing that".
What the Constitution prevents is the GOVERNMENT from doing that. Individuals, clubs, private colleges, private businesses, charities, institutions and associations of all kinds may distinguish between the races as far as the Constitution is concerned. (There are some legislative barriers to doing so, but no Constitutional ones).
Bobert,
"Taking race into account" is the opposite of "NOT taking race into account". Therefore, I must request your apology for accusing me of "spreading the same kinda screwed up thinkin' that brough us a hundred years of Jim Crow, the KKK, the Minutemen, et al..." I wrote: "In 1966, we moved to Orangeburg, South Carolina, where the schools were still segregated. My parents taught me then that the policy in South Carolina was wrong, that it was WRONG to treat an individual differently based on his or her race. Agreeing with my parents were the national news media, liberal white Southerners, many Northern whites, most blacks, the President of the United States, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1970, the schools there were finally integrated. The law stopped treating people differently based on color. We all knew it would be a long while before PEOPLE stopped treating people differently based on color, but we felt sure that school integration was a giant step toward the color-blind dream. Even as a 9-year-old, I knew it was wrong for the law to make blacks go to particular schools. It was wrong then. It is wrong still." I trust you recognize that I clearly condemned Jim Crow on both moral and Constitutional grounds.
If you weren't a fellow West Virginian, I might have to get mad.
Kent Davis