Equal protection under the law is a far better remedy for discrimination than restorative discrimination. Equal protection works when it is applied. That’s precisely what happened in 1960, four years before the Civil Rights Act, when four black civil rights protesters in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat down at the lunch counter at Woolworth’s. Woolworth’s called the police; the police did nothing, as they were law-bound to do, since the students had violated no laws.
