Discrimination and Rights (Ann Speaking)
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							Dee

We interfere because things don't turn out the way libertarians say they will. You think there is a market solution to racial problems. Sometimes that's true. But not always. I remember one time listening to a southern businessman, a white man, on TV. He sold feed and farm supplies. The local community wanted him to fire a black employee because the employee's daughter was going to an integrated school. They simply withheld their business, and this guy was going broke. The point is that local culture in the south could control the market. To some people, segregation was more important than economic concerns.

When the market provides a solution, that's fine. But when it doesn't, the government should intervene. That's what we're faced with here.

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