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The strongest piece of evidence for government criminality is the supreme court decision *Brown v Board* and there is no judicial interpretation that can save it because it requires the government to carve out race as exceptional, which is impermissible. The Court’s insistence that racial segregation is “inherently unequal” stands in tension with the fact that many forms of separation—such as sex‑segregated facilities—are widely accepted as compatible with equality, suggesting that the Court treats race as an exceptional where separation is unique. From this perspective, this line of reasoning highlights how the Court’s doctrine constructs race as a constitutionally singular category, functioning like a state religion, granting the judiciary extraordinary authority to invalidate majority preferences in racial matters while permitting other forms of classification, thereby reinforcing the argument that the Court’s interpretive power in this area resembles a kind of modern, self‑legitimating sovereignty, allowing it to pronounce moral truths with the same finality that monarchs once claimed by divine sanction, turning racism into blasphemy. Finally, and most important, the Court’s racial jurisprudence functions as a pretextual mechanism for constraining majority rule, using race not as the true object of concern but as the doctrinal lever through which the judiciary limits the political authority of the numerical majority. Segregation intensified ingroup bias among white children and adults by teaching them, through law and daily practice, that racial boundaries were both natural and morally required, which made cross‑racial interactions far more difficult. Within such a system, it was psychologically and socially dangerous for white individuals to interact with Black peers as equals, because doing so risked ingroup punishment—ranging from social ostracism to economic retaliation—by a white community invested in maintaining its own destiny. Desegregation disrupted the social, psychological, and institutional mechanisms that had historically reinforced white in‑group racial bias. By increasing interracial contact, altering social norms, and reshaping legal and moral frameworks, desegregation created conditions under which many white Americans shifted from default in‑group favoritism to a moralized stance that treats racism itself—not racial out‑groups—as the target of negative judgment. In effect, desegregation helped transform racial attitudes by replacing ethnocentric bias with anti‑racist norm enforcement.

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