January 22, 2008
Many times people make judgments about others due to the fact they do not understand them, they have never taken the time to talk to them and just believe what others say. Unfortunately, this is why people can hate others without ever having met them. The KKK is an example of people hating others they have never met due to the fact they believe what others have said. It is important to never judge people on the what others tells us, we need to make our own informed decisions on people and get to know their character….because physical appearance has no influence on one’s character as a person.
I want you to listen to a girl who experienced people not knowing her as a person, but made judgments about her due to her race. In this story the people did not hate her, they wanted to find out for themselves what she was like.
In order to listen to her story click:
Write a well thought out response to the following question:
How do you think the Jim Crow Laws affected peoples perception of African Americans and specifically the girl in the story?
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I think they affected white people because I think that Jim Crow just kept on saying bad things about colored people. Like in the story all of the white people in the neighborhood have never seen a colored person before so they wanted to see what the colored girls would do. They also wanted to know why both of the colored girls looked different and the white people wanted to know what the colored people are like.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I think that when the people were educated by her, they were amazed to find that she was not the beastly person they had heard about and actually thought that she could be a not an enemy, but a friend. Everyone in the neighborhood was amazed, not Harsh and Cruel.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I think that the Jim Crow Laws affected peoples perception of African Americans and specifically the girl in the story. Because there could be an African American that never did anything wrong, such as getting on white busses or drinking from white fountains. But they still got lynched or still got there houses and churches burnt down. The KKK could care less what the people are there the police. So every time they do something unjustice or terrible there’s no calling the police or going to the judges, it done your in bad bad luck. So thats also why they try to stand up to whites before the KKK lynches or burns there property. I think this girl is trying to say that when she went to college there were like 6 other African americans. But there was one girl that asked her what she was doing here. So the girl gave her a long speech about them. So the girl that misjudged her invited her over. When she got there she spotted many people all around and asked me is this because me. The ggirl said they have never seen a African American so that was her one chance to show people what African Americans can be, and how there not all bad.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I think Jim Crow Laws prevented blacks like the girl in the story from excelling to her full potential. She was colored and Jim crow Laws made fun of her for being colored. When she was heading toward the other girls house she realized and the people around her realized that she’s not so different.
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I think that Jim Crow portrayed that African Americans were like different species because they weren’t even treated like humans. Also when the girl got out of the car to go to her friends house everyone looked at her as if she were a different species. It would be like our class seeing an alien. Something that was described as different so under our class. Jim Crow had influences on people that in these days we couldn’t even describe. Jim Crow Also had people think that whites were not even supposed to be seen with a African American. That is why what this girl did made a influence on all of those people that saw her that day.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
I think that whites were raised to think of African Americans as inferior people. If whites were to meet an African American and get to know them, then they might see that they are not so different. If a white person remained isolated from African Americans then they would still think of them as an inferior race.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I think that the Jim Crow laws made the Americans think so much bad ideas about African Americans that the americans didn’t know that the African Americans were the same thing as them selves. Just a different color of skin. When the Americans saw that the African Americans were the same thing as them after all and not brutish or piggish like the Jim Crow laws said the African Americans were.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Felix how were they educated by her?
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Jim Crow portrayed African Americans as beasts, animals, or people that you would not like to be with, and since Whites and African Americans were seperated in most everything, whites never really got a chance to see them, talk to them or actually notice they were the same. This was why the many Whites crowded around her and wanted to see if she really was different.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Jim Crow laws made sure that people would never see, let alone get to know a black person. Because if they did, they’d figure out that they were smart, nice, fun, just normal people like whites. That’s definetly why the whites just looked at the girl and asked questions. they wanted to see if the stories they heard were actullay true.
P.S.
Joe Jonas is NOT asian! Not that it’s bad, but anyone could look at him and they’d say he just had tan skin CONNOR and PETER
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
i think that Jim Crow made african americans look like beasts and harsh cruel people. but when an African American went into an all white community they realized that they were only differnent from whites in appearance and they were very nice instead of cruel and mean.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I think that Jim Crow affected the perception that whites took on African Americans because Jim Crow described and treated them as animals, savages, and if a person at all a strange one. Most whites believed this (people are so gullable). It was believable for any one who hasn’t seen a black before.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I think that the Jim Crow Laws definetly affected how white people looked at black people. When you grow up in a world where black people are segregated from you then you never see them because they go in different entrances and sleep in different hotels. And as the girl said people start makilng up tales and stories that are not true and in some ways they are like a bad rumor that spreads throughout the whole country.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I think it was good how the people line up on the street didn’t treat her bad they were just fascinated about there skin color. I think if I were at her college with only 6 other African-American kids including her I would not like that. I think the girl that invited her was very nice to do that since she had nowhere to go for the holidays. Hogan Barnes
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I think that Jim Crow laws made a big difference on what white people thought of African Americans. I especially think that it would have affected white kids who were born and raised into this time of thought. If I had grown up with people always saying bad things about black people and always see them do things differently than me I think I would go along with everyone and not know any better.
If i had never seen them treated normal I assume that I would have no thoughts of being different and tyring to be fair to them.
To me, it’s like a rat in the basement making tiny noises and chewing stuff up. Everyone hates them and wants them to leave, and I would never now all the sudden think to like them and try and care for them and become their best friends.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I think that the Jim Crow laws made the white people think that blacks were even worse than they already thought they were but the only real difference was that they had a different color skin than them. When the white people were being raised there parents probally told them that the black people were not good people and that they were less important than them or they had no importance at all. Most white people had probally not even ever seen a black person or had come close to one so they did not really know anything about them and they had to listen to rumors and lies about and they had to believe them because that was all the white people knew about them.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Brooke Johnson
I think that Jim Crow had a big affection on what the whites thought of the African American. Now there is no Jim Crow laws at all so whites know that they are equal.
The girl in the story was talking about how the whites were seperated for a long time. If you really think about it white children never played with blak children. White never went to parties with black people. They never worked together. Never took the same car. The same water fountain. the same door. I t was really bad to come down to the door. A lot of people were very corious of what a real black person was like what they liked to eat what they acted like. For all these years they have heard so many stories about how blacks are stupid or that they act wierd.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Everysingle on of the Jim Crow Laws made african americans sound horrible, but that was never the case. Like in the story, they said that the girl that comes and sits everyday to look at the african american girl because her brother had told her these awful lies, and that was how the girl was brought up. She didnt know any better, but when she started becoming friends with the african american girls she realized that her brother didnt know anything and was just basing his opion on the laws.
like they always say “Never judge a book by the cover.” Well that is realated to this story. you can now say “Never base an african american person on the Jim Crow Laws.”
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Much of the seperatoin and social codes of Jim Crow laws preventent intergratoin in all most every area of life. Therefore many people had never seen other races. With only stories and distorted images provided by those opposed to intergratoin to give them a discriptoin of other races they formed unjust and incorrect conclusoins and ideas of how African Americans lived, worked, and played.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:42 pm
People thought they were different and weird and almost alien-like just because they had different color skin. Jim Crow laws seperated whites from African Americans because the south didn’t want former slaves to be equal to them. Some people treated them like animals. Some people had never seen an African American before and when they saw one, they stared and wondered if the stories they had heard about them were true, just like the people in the story. People just need to learn to not judge a person by his/her appearance.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Well for a long time whites and blacks were completely seperated because of slavery. Then Jim Crow laws came and people thought of African Americans as animals, like they weren’t equal to anyone else just because of the color of their skin. I agree with Brooke white children and black children never played together and black adults never went to parties with white adults so the whites didn’t know what the blacks mannerisms were. Also stories were spread around that didn’t tell the truth about African Americans. No one knew each other.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
The Jim Crow Laws seperated Blacks and Whites and so Whites would tell stories about the Blacks and when the girl came into the neighborhood they had no idea on how she would look or how she would act. When they saw her and met her I think that they realized thatall those stories people were telling about African Americans it gave them a different perspective. People always say that You can’t judge a book by it’s cover meaning if you have never met someone than you can’t judge them by the way they look or the color of their skin.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
The African Americans were affected by the Jim Crow Laws so bad. They had done nothing to diserve to have these laws against them they had not done any thing wrong unless minding your own buissness or being as nice as they could. The children who were born into this that were white just litsened to what the other Whites were saying about the blacks, and just by listening they could picture them being so bad, done bad things when they had done nothing to diserve that treatment they were getting, just was not fair. The girl in the story, the girl who always came and sat next to the girl just looked at her and saw how she was not a bad person or done bad things but she was almost just like her. When the girl brout her friends to see her that was the first time seeing a African American before coming to see her they were thinking she was bad then they got to know her they found out she was not bad at all she was a very nice person a very smart person. She was a whole lot better then they thought she was, just by meeting her she went to bad to great in just a few minutes by talking to them and telling them about her self. Never judge some one until you have met them or have been in their shoes.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I think that the Jim Crow laws made the white people think that blacks were even worse than they already thought they were but the only real difference was that they had a different color skin than them.
Like in the story i think that most of it is that people are telling other people what they look like and that is not true what they say.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I think that it clouded peoples’ perception, because they just beleived what others had said. They never took the time to get to know African Americans. They just thought they were different. It turns out, inside they are the same.
DG OUT
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
i think that the jim crow laws made everything different and seperate, for example all the people who had never seen an african american before. the jc laws (jim crow laws) made it even harder for african americans to thrive, ex: how the person on the blog audio thingy couldn’t go on vacation because it was too expensive. it probably was too expensive because the jc laws wouldn’t give african americans many good and well paying jobs, which wouldn’t let them go on holiday breaks back to there families.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
i dont agree with felix because the girl didn’t teach the whites she told them about her and that blacks weren’t all cruel. o yea how do u people put those smileys on there!
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I think that Jim Crow Laws affected the perception of African Americans because, obviously the laws did not let whites and African Americans interact with each other. The laws also portrayed African Americans as savage, dangerous people. Think about it, if you had always been told that they were dangerous criminals, would you want to interact with these people? Probably not.
In the story it said that lots of people had never even seen an African American and had been told bad things about them. Of course, when an African American walked into a community where people had never seen an African American, all these people would want to see if the stories that they had heard were true. Of course they were not.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I think Jim Crow Laws affected African Americans and the girl in the story because it gave people who didn’t have a first hand perspective of them a bad one. It made some think that they acted like animals like the girl in the story said. The Jim Crow Laws said false statements about the African American race that had a gave people who never had a perspective first hand a new false perspective to look at it. I think the Jim Crow Laws false statements affected African Americans and the girl in the story because of how there was few African Americans at her college. There could have been few African Americans at her college because of how the Jim Crow Laws affected people, schools, and how schools didn’t give African Americans enough educational opportunities to get accepted by some colleges.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I think that the reason everyone was gathering around was not only because they had never seen a colored person before, but because they had heard stories from people about how horrible and beastly colored people were when in fact some of them were more educated then some whites, all were very nice people (Malcom X cough cough), and also very caring. So I think it made them go, “Wow, they are actually nice people, not frivolous, nonentities.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I think that the jim crow laws made the people think that African Americans were in ferior and that they were different than all the other white people. In that voice thread it was kind of strange because the girl said that people were lineing up tring to see what she looked like. That made me think that the Jim Crow laws not only made african american people sit in the back of buses,go in differnt entrances in public places or use different water fountains it made them almost never meet or maybe even see an African American. The girl also seemed like she was worried that the little girls parents would not except her even in Nebraska where segragation wasnt that high
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I think that Jim Crow laws really affected many people’s thoughts about African Americans because just because a person looked different doesn’t mean that their rights should be taken away, and because of the Jim Crow laws, alot of people thought that way. Through the segregation laws, alot of untrue stories probably developed. Alot of those people probably needed to look beyond their skin color.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
The Jim Crow Laws seperated the whites from the colored. They effected the colored and the whites a lot. They especially effected the whites becuase all of them beleived all the stories that the people told them. For example… when they said that the colored were some sicos that is not true. But they did not know that because they have never met a real African American in there life before. So when the whites saw the African American lady come into the neighborhood, they were all chocked. At that momment, I think that they all were starting to recognize that all of the stories were not real at all. This gave all of them a new perspective about the African Americans. So when the people met her, they were astonished and they were also delighted to meet somebody else that was not there color of skin.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I think the perceptions were based on what they heard about African Americans. Jim Crow had big affects on people. Like white people never really touched any African American so they were scared. In her story I think people had heard so much about African Americans and they believed that. They never got the chance to acualy get close to an African American and listen to them had hear how they are the same. After that story I think whites accualy got the chance to get up close and personal with an African American and I think that was a big step in helping stop Jim Crow.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I think the Jim crow laws made a lot of whites think that colored people were no as smart as whites, not human, or bad people. Some kids at the time, had never seen a colored person upclose before, because of Jim Crow laws, and when the kids finnaly got to get up close to a colored, they relized that they aren’t bad people. Colored people were also afriad of whites.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
The Jim Crow laws effected the way whites looked at blacks because they were seperate all of the time. They got a picture in their heads that blacks were much different, less smart, and that whites were superior to them because they had run down things to use and got a worse education. They had to enter through back doors, sit at the back of buses and plays, and were less wealthy because of the way they had lived before (as slaves). It was just like they were aliens. They had an idea in their heads what they were like, but they had never been in close enough contact with one to tell and relize that the black’s only difference compared to whites was the color of their skin. When blacks and whites started mixing, their view was changed. Whites weren’t superior, smarter, or more important. Neither were blacks. We are all people. The same.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Well, hmmmmmmmmmmm… I think that becouse of the Jim Crw laws, people didn’t really see the colored people on the streets that much, so they depended on stories to tell them about colored people, and like the game telophone, the stories probably evolved into something truly horrible and that was the only way of knowing how colored people are, so when you actually get to know a colored person, you already have an opinion about them, so that is why younger people probably tought poorly of most colored people.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I think that the Jim Crow laws affected the perceptions of people because it kept them separate. This kept them from being able to know about each other and understand that we are all the same. They formed opinions based only on what they had been told, not what they knew. What they heard was like a rumor, it kept changing and the truth became more like a story than fact. This made people think that African Americans were like animals at a zoo, and not real people.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
i think that the opinion people have on a person a big thing, but if you guess what a person is like, than it doesn’t matter what you think because noone will care unless you have met them. This is a lot like the saying,”dont judge a book by it’s cover.” In the story that the woman told people had never seen a black person, therefore they didnt have a full opinion for them yet. i think because of the Jim Crow laws many white people miss judged them because they were once slaves or maybe they were made to enter a public place at a different location.Or maybe they were just scared of what others may think of them. Maybe others wouldnt treat them the same if they treated those with different color skin the way they ought to be treated. Because of Jim Crow many whites didnt know what to think, so they just followed the crowd.
In the lady’s story the people wanted to meet and see a black lady. they believed that maybe if they meet a colored person they would really know how life is the other way. The way or segregation and less fancy buildings. All the people then had their own thought and opinion.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
i think jim crow laws changed the way people looked at african americans because it made it seem like african americans were unjust and that they really had no rights as people therefore they were protrade as these creatures that had no rights. to people who had never seen a black person and had not experienced living in a world full of them they only had the stories they had heard and there imagination. They did not know really what to expect just like in the girls story when they went to college.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I believe that Jim Crow laws kept African Americans separated and white people never really were able to meat African American. I was thinking back to one of the talks you had and you were saying how African Americans are not any different and the people who made up these laws knew that. But they didn’t want everyone else to know because they knew that if people meet the African Americans whites would realize that African Americans were the exact same. Whites would start to under African Americans aren’t beast, they aren’t animals. They’re real human beans who have the same dreams and wishes and goals as whites. The only difference between them is the color of there skin. Then slowly African Americans would be treated the same. Even thought the people who made the Jim Crow laws knew that all of this was true they want to feel like they still had power of the African Americans after slavery was abolished. The whole issue of segregation is power and to feel better about them selves. I wonder if they ever sat back and thought about how it would feel if they were being treat like the African Americans were, few did. In the story about the African American woman, people see that African Americans are the exact same on the inside and all the want is to be treated equal!
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Of Course! I think that Jim Crow laws effected the African Americans greatly because most white people thought so differently about them than others. They were so cruel! And what I mean by that was that some people like in the story that you listen to, haven’t even seen an African American person before. I think that this is very strange because it’s like saying: “I’ve never seen someone short. How do you think they act?” I think that I would feel very “on the spot” answering the questions that the girl answered on the podcast. They would just seem very different. Wouldn’t you feel awkward if someone asked you why you were the way you are or why your skin color is the way it is? I’m so thankful for MLK jr. Aren’t you? Imagine how our lives would be if MLK jr. Hadn’t been born. Would there still be Jim Crow laws? Or would someone as brave as his stand up for their rights as a true American Citizen? These are all some questions that I have been thinking about for a very long time. What do you think about them?
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Jim Crow laws affected peoples perception on African American because since the jim Crow laws made the African Americans so different that when the seggreagation laws became illegal the Jim Crow laws stayed alive in some minds. Obviously the girl in the story was in an enviroment where the Jim Crow laws were alive mentally becuase she was afraid to go into a white neighboorhood because she new that even though segregation was illegal she could still be in danger with the other people that live in the neighborhood.
if this is the same story that you told us in class then the girl was bullied in school. She was treated differently even though it wasn’t allowed, no teacher would stop it since most of the teachers still wanted segreagation and would love the opportunity to expel an African American form their school.
So yes I do think that the jim Crow laws seperated our country and the way people think of others. The laws split our country in two peices and today we are still fitting in the final peices to the puzzle that jim Crow law caused.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
The Jim Crow Laws made every person think that African-Americans are animal-like and inferior to the white population. When the girl in the story went to college, people looked at her and wondered about her, because other people were brought up to think that African-Americans are different and inferior, so people were curious to see if she was really animal-like.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:58 pm
I think That older people who believed in jim crow would tell stories about african americans to keep thier children away. Then the stories got passed down and told around. That kept even more people away. Then Like the girl in the story someone would talk to a colored person and they would become friends, and she would tell everyone thta the stories were false.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
I think that most people judged African Americans just because of what other people had told them. And these people probably spread to their children about how much more inferior they thought African Americans were. In this story, people were lined up on the streets and were interested because they had never seen an African American ever before. And probably half of them were expecting to see a girl who was not dressed very nice and was rude. They only thought this because of the stories they had heard about African Americans. If people who lived during the Jim Crow Laws took the time to get to know an African American, they would see that they were just as equal in every way as we are. History might have all been different if people took the time to get to know an African American, and not just judging them by the stories they had heard. In addition, the girl from Nebraska came to her room every morining to look at her and her belongings. I think she was being nice to invite her to her home for Thanksgiving even after all of the things her brother had said about African Americans.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I think the Jim Crow laws did affect the way whites looked at blacks because it said that blacks were totally different and were not smart like if they were just animals, but like the girl in the story, she goes into an all white neighborhood where she was invited to dinner. Many whites were there because they have never seen s black before up close. So she arrives at the house and the whole family were asking questions about her and they were the same but just a different appearence. So therefore they shouldn’t judge someone by the way they look.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I think this affected the jim crow laws because it gave whites a different and wrong perspective of the african american citizens and it made the whites have all of these crazy ideas about the african american citizens which made the whites treat the african americans cruly and unkind even though in the inside the african americans were just like them. So to sum it up i think that the jim crow laws gave the whites a bad impression on the whites and made them treat the african americans in the wrong way!
Hailey
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Jim Crow Laws affected African Americans in many many ways. The white people, some whom had never even met an African American, just assumed that they were inferior because their skin color was different. The media had a lot to do with how African Americans were precieved among whites. White children, most who had also probably not met or seen an African American, had these ideas that African Americans were mean, ugly savages and could not come near a white person because they were somehow lesser than whites.
Most of the kids in the girls story also had these ideas in their head, so when they learned this African American girl really wasn’t so bad they decided to give her a chance. That’s what the girl that inviting her over did, she took a chance and tried to make a friend. Everyone should be like the girl who invited the African American over. Take a chance, because EVERYONE knows that you can’t judge a book by its cover.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
i think the jim crow laws affected people a lot because the Jim Crow Laws kept limiting every posible law and right they could limit legally. This kept happening, and African Americans and white men kept seeing less and less of each other. they practically had 2 different lives because everything was segregated. if a white man or woman even saw an African American, they would be so curios as to see how they live and how they act, because whites thought that African American’s where like animals and didn’t do anything like they did and whites also thought that Blacks where in the lower class and where not as important as they where.
and for the woman’s story, whe was one out of six African American’s to go to her school. and everyone was treating her strangly because their lives had been seperate and nobody had really been around an African American child. they where very curious about her.i bet she felt awkward being around people who treated her differently. the Jim Crow Laws affected not only the Woman, but many other lives of other children.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I thought that it was amazing that there was a street congested with people to see her and her frind. Most of these people have never even seen an African American in their lives. When she told all of them that though our appearance may differ but inside we are all the same. Before this whites looked to them as they were monsters or animals because of all the hype about Jim Crow. Hopefully most of the people in the room with them got a better idea of how African Americans and whites are just all the same inside.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
The Jim Crow Laws gave white people a perception of blacks that they were barbaric and stupid. They did so by saying that they weren’t allowed certain things whites could have.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I think that jim crow laws effected a lot of people like the girl in the story because the jim crow laws made african americans look really bad and so all these rumors would go around and get worse and worse as it keeps getting told. That way u think african americans are really bad people when you havn’t even seen them or met them. They shouldn’t judge african americans if they havn’t even seen them. Thats what they did in the story.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I think that Jim Crow laws affected people perspectives on colored poeple very much because children growing up heard from there government that these people were worse than them when they werent and also many adults probably only thought what they thought becuase they had heard it from someone else.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Jim Crow laws made everything about African Americans seem very second class. People who had never met or had gotten to know an African American would probably think that African Americans are animals. African Americans never used the front entrances to buildings. They entered through the same place as the animals in a circus tent. Their drinking fountains were lower. Their schools weren’t as educational or sanitary as the white schools. When pictures were drawn of them in articles they looked distorted and clown like, they even looked a little scary. All these things made people who didn’t really know an African American, think of them as animals, even a different species than themselves. Their brains were trained to think that all blacks were to be hated and treated second class. They think that like animals, all African Americans should have the same color skin, even though all whites don’t. It’s so strange how if people treat you like something, then that’s what you feel like even if you’re not.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I agree with Mary Martha when she said that the Jim Crow Laws made african americans seem very low in class and not respectable. I can’t imagine if I was that girl and to see all of the white people looking at me that way. People in the South made a big mistake when they juged a book by its cover.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
The white people were seperated from colored people by Jim Crow laws, since they couldn’t see and get to know what colored people were really like. They assumed they were savage and alien-like people. As the girl explained in the story, she and her friend seemed very interesting to those who had never seen them. The people who had never seen them before were trying to figure out if the rumors they had heard were true. Jim Crow laws were setting an image of what Colored people looked like. People believed them because they were the only things explaining what these colored people were really like. They couldn’t find out the truth about colored people because it was prohibited by the Jim Crow laws.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
The Jim Crow laws were a way to not just phiscally, but also mentally put down the African Americans. I think that the big idea of the Jim Crow Laws was to get a message across to people all over the country, that was saying, African Americans are not equal to whites, because they look different, and will never be the same as whites.I think that the idea was to get inside the African American’s heads, and make them think that they weren’t equal, and I think that’s why there were so many posters, magazines, newspapers, etc. that were advertising African Americans, as “ugly”, or “mean”, or “stupid.” I think the Jim Crow followers believed that if they did this they could convince people and also African Americans, the victims, that the African Americans are not supposed to have the same rights as whites. These people wanted to bring down African Americans mentally, and make African Americans break down, and believe what Jim Crow followers were saying. That’s why everything was smaller, and not as nice as the white’s public places, transportation, objects, etc. I think that in the girl in the audio’s case, this had happened;the Jim Crow leaders and followers had said this so many times and advertised it so many times that people who hadn’t lived the Jim Crow laws, or hadn’t been around the ones in the South, had believed what these whites were saying, because of people believing the advertisments, and ideas, etc. and filling others head’s with this nonsense. Once, these people in the audio saw this girl, and were around her, they realized that all this junk they had heard about colored people being “different” etc., was just a bunch of lies and rumors. So, basically, Jim Crow followers affected the perception of African Americans, because they filled the heads of so many people with nonsense, by advertising, and saying cruel things about colored people, so eventually people believed this, because it was reapeated over and over again.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Scince these people had never seen an African American before, they must have guessed by the way these laws are treating them, they can’t be equal to us. So they go with the flow, and think it’s okay to nullify these people. But the people in this particular story had to say, well, that can’t be right, so I’ll see for myself and learn about these people. And then they’re more educated about everyone, and know that everyone is equal.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
i think that when people saw the types of laws that were made for colored people, they automatically got an idea that African americans were bad even though they hadn’t had a chance to form their own opinion by themselves. the girl in the recording was talking about how everyone was crowding around her. this was because all the white people had seen and heard all the criticizm that was aimed towards the African Americans and they had that bad impression imprinted in their mind.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
This story shows that Jim Crow influenced whites so much that they didn’t even no what black people looked like up close, talked like and felt like. Jim Crow did this because they new that if whites actually got to know blacks they would realize that they were equal.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 am
I think her story shows that many white people were told wrong about African Americans and actually believed that they were the bad things that they were called. when they Saw her they were amazed and they should not be think about them when they haven’t even seen an African American before. When they asked her questions and she told the truth they realized that they had been told false information. Now the White people could have more of their own opinion and realize their equal.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
I think that when the whites saw the girl they were amazed at what she was doing. I think that the white community was taking advantage for people instead of hearing what they have to say. I think that this poor girl should have the right do what she wants and whenever she wants.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:19 am
i think that the jim crow laws prevented colored people from living a full life. It prevented the girl from having a full life. in the story, the girl was walking to other girls house, and then the girls noticed that she wasnt that different. I think Jim Crow Laws are bad and preventing colored people from haviing fun activity in their lives.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:51 am
Good work everyone!
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Well,I think the Jim Crow ?Laws had a huge impact on everyone living at the time,not just the black race.It affected the white race as well.They had always thought of blacks,as stupid,uncapable,and embarassing to society. They were so segregated many of them had never even seen a black person,and when they the communities began de-segregating,it was a whole new experience. They had always been told hey were an inferior race,and always stereotyped them. When the african americans started coming to their neighborhoods,schools,and communities they didn’t understand how they are just like us.They were just as capable as the white people.They didn’y realize this though,because their friends,parents,the media,and everyone else had always advertised how horrible the black people were.When the blacks came to the whites’ community,since they had never seen them they wanted to touch,and stare at them.They found out that there was no difference besides skin color,and that it did not matter.They saw that A. Americans should not be portrayed as horrible aliens.Jim Crow effected everyone equally,and not in a positive wasy.These laws were unjust ans unfair.But evern today we see other races being stereotyped the same way,and the whites being portrayed as the superior race,even though we are all equal?Why shun people because of their skin,job,race,or ethnicity?Inside,we are all the same.
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I believe that the Jim Crow Laws did not just seperate African Americans form white people but they also took away the African Americans confidence, these laws made African Americans look like crazy, stupid people when they actually weren’t. The white girl in the story came to relieze that African Americans weren’t so bad and this allowed for more people to see the truth which lead up to the rights movement. Everyone who tried to do anything about segregation helped the cival rights movement.
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I think that when they saw what she was not only on the inside but the outside to, they realizied that they weren’t very different. They might’ve thought that maybe they were different on the outside, but the same on the inside. I think they didn’t really know what people like themselves can look different from them.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
The Jim Crow laws affect the lives of African Americans not because their human, because their black. There is no difference between blacks and whites, other than the color. Example, when in the kitchen, your mom is baking you a pie, your favorite pie in the world, it is a chocolate dream pie, brown chocolate in the middle and white whip cream all on the out side. Why can’t the world be like a chocolate dream pie, where everyone is baked together to form something edable and good, not something horrible and bitter. The chocolate and the whip cream go together like peanut butter and jelly. BB&J. Africans are the peanut butter, and Whites are the jelly, the bread is the world, where we all belong in something good and edable…together.
The girl in the story wasn’t hurt, she was invited. She got excepted. She was complimented by other Whites. Like in a banana split. The whites were the whip cream and she was the cherry. They bonded together.