Did you know there was a Civil Rights Act of 1875?

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2. Sadly, that quote...

"When a man has emerged from slavery, and, by the aid of beneficent legislation, has shaken off the inseparable concomitants of that state, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of a mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws, and when his rights as a citizen or a man are to be protected in the ordinary modes by which other men's rights are protected."

...could have come from the mouth of John Roberts. That was his rationale for overturning Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.