Sunday, September 25, 2011
People can be Monsters.
I was recently led to a web page with a collection of "Jim Crow" laws (this page: http://www.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm , to be exact), and I found these laws are disgusting. Not only do they show how extreme segregation was in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but they also dispel the idea that the North was a safe haven for blacks. Everyone assumes that even during and after the civil war, blacks were treated equally. It's ok to admit it, I thought so too. And while a lot of the laws are from the Deep South, Maryland and North Carolina, generally thought of as "northern states" also forbade interracial marriage and interracial military service, respectively. What I don't understand is what fuels these laws. Is it fear, hatred, ignorance, or some combination of the three?
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(Continued) Perhaps some nationwide feeling of inadequacy that urges Caucasians to look down on others?
ReplyDeleteIt's incredible that one can deny another man a free life based on skin color? This refusal to allow interaction and marriage between races is nothing more and no less than eugenics. For this reason, some whites in post-civil war America belong to a long like of monsters including (I'm not trying to say this to scare you) Nazis.