In the early 1880s, after the civil war was over and reconstruction was underway, a set of laws called the Jim Crow laws were issued. These laws presented the idea of legalized segregation of white and black people in what people called “separate-but-equal” facilities. The laws also severely limited what a black person could do, but they changed a lot after the Civil Rights acts and all that chaos. Some of the Jim Crow laws still have an impact on society today, whether we want it or not. First off, before we get into how the Jim Crow laws still exist, we should probably know what they were in the first place. The idea of the Jim Crow laws was actually established in the early 1800s, long before the civil war broke out, but they didn’t have very much effect until the 1880s. The law set was a huge limitation to the very lifestyle of an African American person. There were separate schools, separate local theatres, separate post offices, separate bus seats, even the bathrooms were segregated. Basically, anywhere you went, there was an area for …show more content…
I some areas, this is usually meant as a way to playfully tease somebody. However, it isn’t always taken that way. As a hypothetical case, maybe the person you talked to was from another continent and was persecuted there for their race, and they only came here to escape all of the punishment for stuff they never did in the first place. As it says in To Kill a Mockingbird, you never really know someone until you climb into their shoes and walk around in them (Lee, 374). Sometimes it’s a joke, other times, it’s nowhere near it. People often think about others differently for the reason of their race. For example, ever since Obama was elected president, people have almost completely ignored his efforts to pass a new healthcare act and working almost like a socialist. It’s still happening. It needs to be