Taxi companies need to own the car, pay for maintenance, pay wages for the driver, insurance, etc.

Ride-sharing apps offload all of the taxi-company maintenance overhead costs to the gig-driver while only paying about 50% of the fare.

This is a malignantly intentional ignorance, and it will spread.

The Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964. That was only 60 years ago.

There are pictures of Bernie Sanders being arrested while protesting segregation. Bernie isn’t the oldest serving senator, and there are currently serving senators who have received “F” grades on their civil rights voting records, despite claiming to support civil rights.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2022/01/24/mitch-mcconnell-not-civil-rights-champion-he-claims-opinion/6634360001/

I think it is entirely accurate to state that America is a bigoted nation.

I knew a lady in the Army. Under Obama, she got the right to be out. She also got the right to marry her long-time girlfriend and receive the pay allowances that hetero couples received.

She voted for Trump in 2016.