废除种族隔离案件判决的合法性

The Lawfulness of the Segregation Cases

以布朗诉教育委员会案为代表,美国联邦最高法院宣告种族隔离违反宪法。这些判决是正确的,因为宪法第十四修正案平等保护条款禁止州法将黑人置于显著劣势的地位,而种族隔离是州法针对黑人作为种族的、大规模的故意劣化。第十四修正案必须被理解为要求黑人享有法律的平等保护,他是黑人这一事实本身不得被看作是拒绝给予他平等的充足理由,无论这个理由在某些人看来有多么"合理"。

In a series of cases pioneered by Brown vs.Board of Education,the U.S.Supreme Court declared that racial segregation was against the Constitution.These judgments are correct in the sense that the Fourteenth Amendment forbids the States from putting the black into disadvantaged status,and racial segregation is massive disadvantaging of the black as a race.The Fourteenth Amendment must be understood as requiring the equal protection of law for the black;the mere fact that he is black must not be treated as an adequate reason to deny equal protection,no matter how“proper”this reason may seem to be from some people's perspective.