Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Jim Crow

After reading this I almost felt ashamed to be an American. Honestly you have to be pretty sick to even come up with these laws. What really stuck out to me was the whole religion thing. One of the main components of the bible was how God loves everyone and excepts everybody. So when they were saying that God put African-Americans on the planet to be the slave to white people made me honestly sick to my stomach. I couldn't believe the absurd laws that we had. I mean the one about lighting the cigarette having it be "coming on to a white women" I mean where did they come up with this stuff?
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4 comments:

  1. lukefinkelSeptember 22, 2010 at 10:19 PM

    I personally would say I'm ashamed to be an American, but I am ashamed of this time period.

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  2. nick NobregaSeptember 22, 2010 at 10:23 PM

    Now imagine if we all felt ashamed to be an American back in the time period of these conflicts. Mabe discrimination wouldnt go this far...

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  3. NaureenSeptember 22, 2010 at 10:25 PM

    I also felt the same when I read this article. We are really judgy people and we should be ashamed of that. I wish this slave thing never existed its so cruel towards all the people who werent white back then and now

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  4. Katie KelloggSeptember 22, 2010 at 11:08 PM

    I totally agree with you. It is crazy to me that they used the Bible and Christianity as something to justify racism and hatred. I was always taught that God loves everyone for exactly who and what they are. The fact that they truely and whole-heartedly believed that the simple fact of being White automatically made you sureior to a Black person makes me sick to my stomach.

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