Blue States' Civil Rights Violations

Unrepentantly breaking the law

Blue states routinely violate civil rights laws. While this has been happening for many years, the situation has been worsening lately. What are these violations and what laws are the states breaking? Are there any consequences for breaking the law? Let’s dig in.

Civil rights laws

The U.S. Declaration of Independence states that “All men are created equal.” Guarantees of equality of opportunity and equal protection under the law are parts of the U.S. Constitution and its constitutional amendments. The Fourteenth Amendment, often called the Equal Protection Clause, states the following:

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge then privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States: nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

A while later in U.S. history, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed to further address concerns about discrimination based on race, sex, religion and national origin.

The Civil Rights Act consists of eleven provisions.¹

Title 1 guarantees equal voter registration requirements for all U.S. citizens.

Title 2 assesses discrimination in hotels, restaurants, theaters and other commercial businesses.

Title 3 prohibits segregation in libraries, parks, swimming pools, prisons and other public facilities. It enforces equal protections already in place under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Titles 4 and 5 end segregation in public schools and universities and enforce desegregation. They reinforce equal protections already in place under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Title 6 specifies that recipients of federal funding may not discriminate based on race, color or national origin. If they do, the federal government can conduct an investigation and terminate federal funding.

Title 7 prohibits discriminatory practices in employment hiring based on race, sex, religion or national origin.

Title 8 directs the Secretary of Commerce to conduct surveys of voter registration and voting statistics.

Title 9 authorizes the Attorney General to intervene in situations where private individuals have allegedly suffered Equal Protection Clause (Fourteenth Amendment) violations based. It was amended in 1972 to prohibit sex discrimination in institutions that receive federal funding.

Title 10 establishes a Community Relations Service to prevent and respond to “alleged hate crimes based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or disability.” [This law is greatly abused by left-wing politicians today. The definition of “hate crime” has been widely distorted.]

Title 11 addresses the interaction between state laws and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Blue state violations

Several states and cities have passed laws that provide for “reparations,” using taxpayer money to make payments only to “historically marginalized” people. These are often descendants of slaves who were released from slavery more than 150 years ago. Once historically marginalized, they are forever marginalized, according to left-wing activists. This narrative flies in the face of the widespread reverse discrimination that we see today—euphemistically called “anti-racism” when promoted by woke Marxists.

The places with these “reparation” laws include California; Washington state; Evanston, Illinois and Asheville, North Carolina. These places give reparations only to “historically marginalized people” in a variety of ways. The reparations come in the form of direct cash payments, grants, forgiveness of loans or mortgages, or programs open only to certain races. All of these examples, however, are forms of clear-cut racial discrimination and violate the Equal Protection Clause.

Many cities and states have also instituted sex discrimination. Trans-identifying individuals who are not biologically female are allowed in female bathrooms or on women and girls’ sports teams in these places. In addition, white men often find it difficult to get admitted to educational programs and universities or even get a job because of race and sex discrimination that violates civil rights laws.

What to do about it

The best way to end racial discrimination is to stop discriminating based on race. The same with sex discrimination. These types of civil rights violations are handled by the Department of Justice, which did not enforce the law under the Biden-Harris administration. That is beginning to change.

In order to end the racist practices of blue states and cities, the U.S. Department of Justice is obliged to begin investigating these civil rights violations. The public will be quite interested to see their findings. (Look to alternative news sources since legacy media will not publish them.) In addition, enforcement of Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act will ensure that recipients of federal funding who violate civil rights laws are investigated and defunded of federal taxpayer money. This includes states, cities and nongovernmental organizations as well as schools and universities with discriminatory practices.

Let your elected representatives know what you think about these discriminatory practices. Have you observed other current examples of “antiracist” or reverse discrimination? (They are quite common.) What about other types of discrimination? What do you think should be done about these civil rights violations?

This photo shows many of the blue states. It’s not quite accurate. Arizona, once a conservative or “red” state, is now considered a swing state but not a blue state.

1. Back, Christine J. The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Eleven Titles at a Glance. Library of Congress, 12/14/2020. www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11705