A Gruesome Downfall...

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Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates ...
    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 ravenous actions of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). There were one the most violent terrorist group to ever be created at the time. This group was the epitome of violence and filled the lives of African Americans with so much danger that it became a regular thing in their lives. How can people live with themselves, making other people live in complete fear to the outside world? Fear of what is to come in the future? There have also been lunch mobs, hanging innocent black people from a tree. It's disgusting that they even consider doing it for fun. How can they find killing tens of thousands of innocent black African Americans amusing in the slightest. It truly was a dark time.

    The fact is that all of these events that have transpired and affected blacks were not just unequal and unconstitutional, but just greatly inhuman to a large degree. I feel that in comparison, blacks would have had a safer life if they were still slaves. It is incredible  how humanity couldn't build up their proper standards until later. Unfortunately, racism is still alive, though it is now minuscule. I just hope we don't treat each other like Jim Crow, especially around these times. All people deserve to be treated equally, not separate.

Sources: Jim Crow Laws


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