Comments on: Perceptions?

By: Sydney Wolfe

Sydney Wolfe — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:57:23 +0000

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.

By: Jay Bland

Jay Bland — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:07:47 +0000

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.

By: Felix Lee

Felix Lee — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:12:17 +0000

:-p and….(b@-@)b thumbs up!

By: James F.

James F. — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:10:44 +0000

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.

By: Anisa

Anisa — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:11:09 +0000

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.