Racial Discrimination for Entry into a Commercial Mall

My question involves civil rights in the State of: any state.

If I own an indoor mall, is it legal for me to hire security guards to stand at the entrance of the mall and bounce any colored person from entering the mall?

So ... is this a hypothetical for a class?

It's a hypothetical but not for a class.

We really don't do hypotheticals here.

But the simple answer is Yes, it's illegal.

Sorry for asking a hypothetical in this forum, I was just trying to better understand the U.S. law and culture.

So, I asked if it is Legal. You said "Yes, it is illegal", so which is it?

It is not legal for you to block people from entering on the basis of their race. I hope that this is now perfectly clear to you. It is a violation of Federal law. This remains true no matter what "hypothetical" situation you set up.

Oh, semantics.

ILLEGAL.

And really - what colored people?

White? Pink? Coffee? Chocolate? Caramel?

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Quoting msafi

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My question involves civil rights in the State of: any state.

If I own an indoor mall, is it legal for me to hire security guards to stand at the entrance of the mall and bounce any colored person from entering the mall?

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do you mean colored, like this:

http://www.imaginationscostumes.com/...ASK865-925.jpg

I'm of the opinion that government shouldn't intervene on how private people run their businesses. If they want to racially discriminate, it's their property and can do with it whatever they like. I know this is an unpopular opinion these days, but I'm not here to argue or discuss it. I'm here to learn.

I was just trying to explain the concept of private ownership to my friends, so they challenged me by asking if it were legal for private establishments in the U.S. to discriminate racially, I said, "yes, probably it's legal. It's their property, but the market and the press would probably take care of this and correct the situation" but I'm learning for the first time that there is a Federal law against this kind of thing.

Thanks for the information.