Lawmaker: 'Government Shouldn't Prevent Racial Discrimination'

By Julissa Catalan


According to a Republican South Dakota State Senator and “free market economy” advocate, businesses should have the right to deny services to clientele based on their race.

In an interview with the Rapid City Journal, Phil Jensen stood by those beliefs, saying, “If someone was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and they were running a little bakery for instance, the majority of us would find it detestable that they refuse to serve Blacks, and guess what In a matter of weeks or so that business would shut down because no one is going to patronize them.”

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