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Do you agree with Justice Brown that the enforced separation of the two races does not “stamp the colored race with a badge of inferiority”? Why or why not?

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Answer: The Negative Effects of Segregation

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On the surface, it doesn't. The argument presented by Brown is very logical. But hatred is not a logical emotion. It may use logic to further its means as in this case, but logic is abandoned when dealing with the reality of a situation.

The one dissenting vote, a former confederate officer, made the lone contrary opinion which in part included this statement.

Our Constitution is color blind," he wrote, "...all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful." "What can more certainly arouse race hate, what more certainly create and perpetuate a feeling of distrust between these races," he asked, "than state enactments which...proceed on the ground that colored citizens are so inferior...that they cannot be allowed to sit in public coaches occupied by white citizens?"

Plessy even looked white and still he was arrested. If this does not stamp the colored as inferior, why was Plessy v Ferguson later overturned in the supreme court in the 1950s with Brown v. Board of Education?

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