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The art of building walls and calling them order, then pretending everyone agreed.
means The deliberate separation of people into groups, usually by race, that keeps the powerful comfortable and the rest constrained.
from From Latin segregare, to separate from the flock, where grex means herd — fittingly, it was always about herding humans like livestock.
Legal coverPlessy v. Ferguson blessed it as separate-but-equal in 1896.
Never equalThe separate was enforced; the equal never showed up.
De factoOutlawing it on paper rarely outlaws it on maps.