Can you imagine?

Can you even imagine?


Education The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately. Florida
The Blind The board of trustees shall...maintain a separate building...on separate ground for the admission, care, instruction, and support of all blind persons of the colored or black race. Louisiana




How could there be such a world as this? When I read these laws, all I can do is ask question. How could people be so cruel? How could a white person look at another human being in their different colored face with disgust? How could they not look at the mirror at themselves and realize something is wrong? How? The word repeats itself ever time I read a new law. How.


Children were brought up to believe that being different is a bad thing. But not only this, white children were taught that black people were different from them. They were taught that as being different is bad, then black children therefore must be bad.    


In one way of thinking, it wasn't necessarily these people's faults for believing this, considering this is the way they were brought up and the things they were taught.  On the other hand, there is a point when a person should understand the circumstances and realize that they have been taught wrongly.


On the third hand, what if it was one of those things that people just don't pay as much attention to? For example, animal right currently could in the future be related to jim crow laws. If animals end up gaining more rights in the future, then those in the future could look at us currently and think of us as cruel. So in a sense, we could be just as cruel as humans were in the past...when you think of it in that sense.


All in all though, I believe that regardless, Jim Crow Laws are horrible, inhumane, and break my heart to even imagine a reality where they existed.