separate and equally brazen

I was just reading about the post-Reconstruction laws in the South. I'd known they had separate bathrooms for whites and blacks, separate sections of streetcars, separate water fountains; I hadn't quite known they had separate post office windows, though that doesn't seem too surprising. But I'm just reading that the separation extended to courtrooms, where they had separate Bibles to swear in whites and blacks.

Now that's cognitive dissonance.