I am more hopeful in the future because i feel that are new president is going to turn things around and make things a lot better for everyone :)
So this term is usually known as laws so absurd that it shouldn't even be a law. Examples are like "One may not eat oatmeal on their porch on Saturdays in ______". The term came from the idea that they shouldn't need to be stated and that they are just morally wrong. Or that one MUST do something because it is morally right to do that.
Because they are all in sense racist laws. They all demonized black people. From KKK thrusting their lives, Jim Crow Laws singling them out.