Moses' Blog

    What happened during the Jim Crow Laws was unbelievably painful. It is honestly hard to imagine all these events that have unfolded have been furled by "white supremacy."Everything was so terrible for blacks that I feel it was literally impossible for blacks to live a life in the US.      A key reason this time period was so gruesome was the sheer bloodshed from blacks caused by whites. Red Summer was truly a painful time to behold. Black kids accidentally swam on a white beach and one of them was hit with a stone and died. This caused an uproar in the public with black kids getting arrested instead of the white man who threw the stone. This type of thing completely enrages me, because those segregation laws caused an innocent man who didn't do anything wrong to get arrested, while the white killer is free, feeling proud of himself for what he done and getting away with taking a life.     Everyone knows the r...

     Honestly in my opinion, the Jim Crow Era was the most depressing timeline that I can think of as of late.. at least for all blacks. The way they were treated was honestly still inhuman after setting up all of those Jim Crow Laws. They might as well just rip the 14th Amendment right out of the constitution, or edit it to "separate, but whites have a higher ranking than blacks."     During the Jim Crow era, Blacks were faced with a rough and heavy legal system in which they would be facing fines, jail sentences, and even death if they even tried to step out of line. Not only did this make the races separate and the whites were in some sort of higher class compared to blacks, but these laws took away their right to vote, and put all of them into a state of indentured servitude, ironically after the 13th amendment in the constitution r=was ratified. Blacks could not get a proper education because they lacked the more experienced teachers, and they couldn't be i...

       I recently learned from student news that apparently at Moderna, A biotech company has developed a vaccine for the corona virus that seems to work and test well despite a few minor side effects, but I'm probably speaking for everyone when I ask this question: Why isn't there more in the public??     Scientists are working on this vaccine in phases. Phase one appears to be testing the vaccine to see if the immune system will respond accordingly to it. They are still testing this vaccine to see if it will actually protect against the infection, so they are enlisting more than 30,000 volunteers to take the vaccine, and will take action in less than 2 weeks. Phase 3 may be more testing, and then delivering millions of doses around the world, so that gives a lot of relief to the public.     There is one key problem I see that may or may not (but hopefully not) result in a bit of conflict in the public. Scientists estimate that the entire pr...

         Honestly, I felt great concern for how the Reconstruction era declined, and I feel the biggest reason for its decline was obviously the cause of the case of Plessy v. Ferguson     It is said that the people hold the power to change, and they did,  somewhat. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment played a big part in this, making blacks to be separate but equal. there were pros and cons from each argument, but it was on the side of Plessy that they had a shocking yet clear advantage.     Yes, these amendments provided blacks with equal rights and citizenship, and that there were separate railroad cars present, but to have separate facilities for everything is a bit tedious to me, let alone ridiculous. Plessy went in to a whites car, causing an uproar in the public and getting himself arrested. It shouldn't matter which car they should take. All I see from this is whites driving a limousine, leaving blacks with a broken, run down...

  Honestly, after seeing this movie at this time, I see very few cons about the movie, and overall, found it enjoyable at best. I would like to reiterate on a point someone brought up previously about the movie. The focus on the movie is kind or confusing. On one hand, the movie focuses on what life was like around that time and how people interacted with each other, and most importantly, how blacks were portrayed. On the other hand, this seems like a classic 80's love story between a prissy woman who is dramatically in love with a man, who is also in love with someone else.     I personally feel that the movie could be better if they focused on one key point: how life was like in that time. There can be a good story line to go with it. It's not that the story it had was completely awful, it has its highs and lows and it did do a good job of how people were affected by the Yankees, the army trying to defend people, and the people being relieved of crushed by whe...