attitudes, institutional inertia and continued suffering of descendants
   of the former slaves called for further major reforms.

   Laws whose goal was to reduce or eliminate racial discrimination were
   an obvious and legitimate next step.

   A genuine civil rights law whose goal is to combat racial
--

   By contrast, although the motive for violating a first come, first
   served rule would be legally irrelevant, such laws would prevent
   establishments from engaging in racial discrimination. Since
   discrimination is not an action, efforts to make it illegal are
   pseudolaws.

   Paradoxically, our efforts to eliminate racial discrimination have
   employed the same kind of illegitimate tools that created slavery and
   racial segregation.