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Jesse Lee Peterson Says 'It Was Wrong To Let Blacks Do Sit-Ins On Private Businesses' During The Civil Rights Era

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 10/24/2014 10:45 am

Last month, Jesse Lee Peterson wrote a column for WND suggesting that if anti-gay Christian business owners are going to be required to serve gay customers, they ought to do so by informing any gay customers "upfront that they would take their money and donate it to a conservative Christian law firm to fight against same-sex marriage." Shortly after posting that column, Peterson discussed this "solution" on his radio program and, during the course of that discussion, declared that business owners should be free to discriminate against anyone they choose. As such, Peterson said, it was wrong civil activists to launch sit-ins and protests against racially discriminatory business owners during the Civil Rights Era. "It was wrong during the so-called Civil Rights Movement," Peterson said, "when they forced private white businesses like cafes and restaurants and things like that, when they allowed black people to do sit-ins on private white businesses, those folks who did not want black people in there."

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[Jamaal510]

1. JLP has a case of revitiligo. eom

[Rhinodawg]

2. What the hell is a Jesse Lee Peterson ??

who is this clown?

[hifiguy]

3. Clarence Thomas = Uncle Ruckus, Sr.

Jesse Lee Peterson = Uncle Ruckus, Jr.

[ck4829]

4. Conservative Oversimplification strikes again

I don't buy goods or services from a business that discriminates against gays, and I wouldn't have bought one from that discriminates against minorities. I wonder where I'd fit into that. If you want to discriminate, don't complain when you lose business. The people who defend this, they want it both ways, the right to choose who buys, and the freedom to evade consequences when people rally against the discrimination.

Segregationists yesterday, Peterson today, and there are those who defend discrimination against gays in when they want to buy something, it isn't as cut-and-dried as conservatives want to say it is.

Discrimination in buying is actually very insidious, it's a message to the discriminated; that their presence is unwelcome, that you are willing to trade profits for keeping them out, it's exclusion from the local economy, from the community, from the infrastructure. It is not simply "I don't want you in my store", it is "I don't want you in my community."

[shenmue]

5. Aaaaaaaack