Next month's centennial of plessy v. ferguson will be an occasion to celebrate how much things have changed since the days when Supreme Court decisions reeked with racism. "If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same plane," declared Justice Henry B. Brown, writing for the 8-1 majority that agreed Homer Adolph Plessy had no business sitting in the white section of a Louisiana train. The decision provided legal cover not only for segregated train cars but for the next 58 years of Jim Crow in all its vile, phony "separate but equal" incarnations. The anniversary will also remind us, however, that the questions at the heart of the case (What is "equal" treatment? And what is the government's role in ensuring it?) remain largely unresolved.
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机译：下个月的plessy诉Ferguson百周年纪念日将是庆祝自最高法院种族歧视之后，情况发生了多大变化的机会。大法官亨利·布朗（Henry B. Brown）宣称：“如果一个种族在社会上不如另一个种族，美国宪法就不能将它们放在同一架飞机上。”他以8-1的多数票赞成，荷马·阿道夫·普莱西（Homer Adolph Plessy）毫不犹豫路易斯安那州火车的白色部分。该决定不仅为隔离的火车车厢提供了法律保障，而且为吉姆·克罗（Jim Crow）的下一个58年提供了所有卑鄙，虚假的“分离但平等”的化身。然而，周年纪念日还将使我们想起，案子的核心问题（什么是“平等”待遇？政府在确保这种待遇方面的作用是什么）仍未得到解决。
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