I’m sure the blacks who actually lived under Jim Crow laws would beg to differ.

Via Politico:

The North Carolina same-sex marriage ban is right up there with the worst kind of discrimination, said Democratic National Convention Committee co-chair Jim Rogers, reflecting on the constitutional amendment that passed in his home state this week.

“We’ll look back with a clearer majority in the future, that this is exactly what it is,” Rogers told POLITICO on Thursday. “We’ll be as embarrassed of this Jim Crow law as we were of the Jim Crow laws in the 1860s, 1880s. Any time you deny people rights such as wanting to live together, I just don’t think it’s fair.”

Rogers, the CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy, also credited President Obama for endorsing same-sex marriages on Wednesday, a day after North Carolina voted 61-39 to enact a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman.

“I think it shows a lot of political courage,” Rogers said. “If you were his political adviser, you’d be telling him, ‘Why address it now? You’ve got Biden in the right place. Arne Duncan has talked about it in a clear way. You don’t really have to take a position. ”

Obama’s move, Rogers added, is a political win-win because he had no chance of winning over hard line opponents on the social issue anyway.