[Jim Crow's Goal: Making Blacks Inferior]

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[Jim Crow's Goal: Making Blacks Inferior]
Price, Hugh. Sacramento Observer. Sacramento, Calif.: Oct 16, 2002. Vol. 39, Iss. 44; pg. C-5

The above link is to an article about the Jim Crow laws. It tells about some of the things the blacks had to endure and how they fought back. This article not only talks about the past, but it also touches on our society today. I chose this article because it was a good description of the Jim Crow laws. It talks about how many whites wanted this nation to be an only white nation. However, the blacks fought back and showed that they could be successful.

This article is related to class material because it talks about the Jim Crow laws that were portrayed in “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow,” written by Richard Wright. In the chapter by Wright, it talks about a little black boy who does not know the Jim Crow laws and ends up paying the price for it. At his first job he had, he asked if he could learn how to do more things. The white people who worked there did not like this because blacks are suppose to be inferior to them. Likewise in the article, “Jim Crow’s Goal: Making Blacks Inferior,” it states that, “If White people couldn't make Black people inferior, then they could make them act inferior” (Price). The white people could not make the blacks be inferior to them, because realistically they are not inferior to them. So, instead they had to make the Jim Crow laws to make them act inferior.

I think that it is interesting how people were so simple minded and how some still are. It amazes me how someone could have come up with them laws to degrade and humiliate black people just because they have a different skin color. They saw them as inferiors, barely even humans. The whites cut down every chance the blacks had to move up in life or become better educated. I think that the Jim Crow laws degraded the blacks and not only made them feel inferior, but also made them think that they were inferior. Nevertheless, some people who were strong fought this believe and made the whites know that blacks were equal to them and diffidently not inferior.