The Brown v Board Case: Impact on me

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Resegregation in U.S. Schools, 60 Years After Brown v. Board of ...
    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 in any public place that was "white territory."

    Of course things just had to get worse for blacks because they didn't have it bad enough already, The Ku Klux Knan straight up terrorized the black community. If it weren't for some people who took a stand against this, It scares me to think of what it would be like now. In Brown v.Board of Education, Linda Brown could not enter an all white elementary school because the Board of Education claims that this violates the “separate but equal” doctrine. What the Board fails to realize is that the very cause of blacks being separate from whites is what makes them unequal. They fail to see all the chaos that these laws have caused. There should be no upper class or race of any kind and we should not demote each other as we are all in one nation.

    Today, I am seriously grateful for cases such as these to make it to the supreme court. My parents were able to get a good education and practice medicine, and moved from their homeland, Nigeria to the US, so they along with me and my siblings, could build a better future here. I hope in the future, we can develop more as a nation where all forms of racism goes to die... and forever stays dead.

Plessy v. Ferguson

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