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What about our second question?

What counts as equal treatment?

I used to think that equal treatment was something everyone had a right to and that it was easy to know it when you saw it.

In the early days of the civil rights movement, that may have been true. My grandmother lived in Georgia and she wanted to be able to go to the same schools and restaurants that white people went to. And you knew perfectly well when you could go and when you couldn't. So equal treatment was obvious.

But a lot of things have changed since the days of school segregation. There have been other political movements that have to do with women, the handicapped, and gays and lesbians. I'm not sure that equal treatment is so obvious. Do you know what I mean?