The
Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the
United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868,
provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction
"the equal protection of the laws". > GO TO: EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause + EQUAL PROTECTION: AN OVERVIEW @ https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/equal_protection
Similarly; in United States federal anti-discrimination law, a protected class is a characteristic of a person which cannot be targeted for discrimination. The following characteristics are considered "Protected Classes" by Federal law: Race – Civil Rights Act of 1964. > Go To: PROTECTED CLASS @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations").
Powers given to enforce the act were initially weak, but were supplemented during later years. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, at the White House.
"An act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States of America to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes..." (Enacted by the 88th United States Congress). > Go To: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
Furthermore; race, as a social construct, is a group of people who share similar and distinct physical characteristics. First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, by the 17th century race began to refer to physical (i.e. phenotypical) traits. The term was often used in a general biological taxonomic sense, starting from the 19th century, to denote genetically differentiated human populations defined by phenotype.
Social conceptions and groupings of races vary over time, involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of individuals based on perceived traits. Scientists consider biological essentialism obsolete, and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits. Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptualizations of race are untenable, scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race in widely differing ways, some of which have essentialist implications.[17] While some researchers sometimes use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race often is used in a naive[12] or simplistic way,[18] and argue that, among humans, race has no taxonomic significance by pointing out that all living humans belong to the same species, Homo sapiens, and subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.[19][20]
Go To: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28human_categorization%29
NOTE: Caucasians are now officially a minority group in the State of California; therefore Caucasians should enjoy the same equal rights etc protections as all other minority groups in the State of California. That said; one particular racial groups' majority status should not amount to any loss of equal protection for that racial group and/or other racial group and/or individual.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations").
Powers given to enforce the act were initially weak, but were supplemented during later years. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, at the White House.
"An act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States of America to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes..." (Enacted by the 88th United States Congress). > Go To: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
QUESTIONS: ARE PUBLIC BATHROOMS ENTIRELY PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS; OR SEMI-PRIVATE PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS? AND WHY ARE WOMEN ALLOWED TO URINATE IN PRIVATE LOCKED BATHROOM STALLS; WHILE MEN ARE STILL OFTEN FORCED TO URINATE STANDING NEXT TO EACH OTHER IN WALL MOUNTED URINALS? HOW ABOUT ADDING MORE LOCKING STALLS TO ADD AN ELEMENT OF PRIVACY TO ALL PUBLIC/PRIVATE BATHROOM ACCOMMODATIONS? AND HOW DOES THE INEQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMENS' BATHROOMS AND/OR PRISONS ETC FIT INTO THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE; DESPITE BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES?
Furthermore; race, as a social construct, is a group of people who share similar and distinct physical characteristics. First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, by the 17th century race began to refer to physical (i.e. phenotypical) traits. The term was often used in a general biological taxonomic sense, starting from the 19th century, to denote genetically differentiated human populations defined by phenotype.
Social conceptions and groupings of races vary over time, involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of individuals based on perceived traits. Scientists consider biological essentialism obsolete, and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits. Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptualizations of race are untenable, scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race in widely differing ways, some of which have essentialist implications.[17] While some researchers sometimes use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race often is used in a naive[12] or simplistic way,[18] and argue that, among humans, race has no taxonomic significance by pointing out that all living humans belong to the same species, Homo sapiens, and subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.[19][20]
Go To: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28human_categorization%29
NOTE: Caucasians are now officially a minority group in the State of California; therefore Caucasians should enjoy the same equal rights etc protections as all other minority groups in the State of California. That said; one particular racial groups' majority status should not amount to any loss of equal protection for that racial group and/or other racial group and/or individual.
SEE ALSO: THANKS FOR NOTHING / PART II -- MOTION FOR EXPUNGEMENT AND/OR FACTUAL INNOCENCE @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2015/06/thanks-for-nothing-part-ii-motion-for.html + VIOLATION OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 + RETALIATION AGAINST A WHISTLE BLOWER (CONTINUED) @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2015/09/violation-of-voting-rights-act-of-1965.html + HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM @ http://addendumblog1.blogspot.com/2015/03/houston-we-have-problem.html
it occurred to me...isn't it already "sorta gay" when a bunch of men pee at the same time while using wall-mounted urinals standing next to each other in a men's bathroom? (shoreline amphitheater for instance; i always use stalls whenever possible) and what about jocks who all shower together? what about that?! that's "sorta gay" too! so...how about adding more stalls for people like me who already feel uncomfortable in public bathrooms? and what about touring glam rock musicians using public/private bathrooms? what about that!?!
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