Brian Villanueva on We're Not At the End, But You Can See It From Here

Your ethnic enclave idea sounds like a domestic version of Liberia. I suspect it would work about as well. A Liberia on our doorstep would amount to our own Gaza Strip. The problems with the Civil Rights Act are deeper; it conflicts with the inalienable right of association (or non-association). This core problem -- the law now requires Americans to regularly come into contact with others that they find abhorrent -- metastasizes and feeds all the others. That's true whether you're black, white, or brown. I understand the intentions were good and perhaps even needed, but this is a major imposition on a basic human right. We're now reaping the consequences of trying to go against tribal human nature for 60+ years. If you haven't read Age of Entitlement by Caldwell, you should. The book is all about the downstream effects of this conflict. We're living under 2 Constitutions: 1789 and 1964. One of these will fall because they can not coexist. Another book that's really good, although only tangentially related to civil rights, is Tribe by Sebastian Junger. He analyzes ways of managing tribalism in large, complex societies. Best quote of the book (paraphrase): "A nation is just a really big foxhole. If you doubt this, you've likely never been in a foxhole."