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College football programs in the American South can "hire and fire", so to speak, whomever they please. They were, for many years, the most racist institutions you're likely to find, with many teams composed entirely of white players. And yet, those who refused to allow black students to play got their asses kicked, and now virtually all college football teams have many black players.

How could a society where companies can hire and fire at will possibly be just? One word: competition. Racist companies that reject talented black youths such as the one you describe will, like the racist football teams of yore, get their asses kicked by companies that hire them.




VERY good point.




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