I remember when:

 

•  There were separate toilets for “whites” and “coloreds” in the southern United States.

 

•  I worked for a short time picking fruit in South Carolina in 1970. There the “white” workers were given a toilet to use while the “colored” workers had to use an outhouse.

 

• There were department store restrooms where half of the toilets were pay toilets.  You had to insert a dime into a metal box on the door in order to get access to the toilet.  The pay toilets were kept clean, the others were dirty.

 

• In 2014, I went to a restroom in a public building near Seattle and found a sign on one stall saying “This toilet is reserved for e-cigarette employees only.”  (I am choosing to not reveal the name of the company that did this.)

 

Is a new form of segregation starting?

 

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