Connection and Reflection..

One of the passages we have read in class so far that I find easy to relate with my personal experiences is the Ethics of Living Jim Crow. Although this selection was all facts, the evidence from these facts have made me aware that the effects that my experiences have had on me is similar to the effects that living during Jim Crow had on the young people of its time.

In the Ethics of Living Jim Crow, readers were told that segregation was even justified in the school systems because parents and the white race on a whole did not want their children or themselves to learn in the same institutions as blacks. They felt that we blacks were inferior only because they had different color skin. When research was done to see how life in this era affected the psyche of young children. They conducted this experiment with the use of dolls and when the young children were asked to choose which doll they would rather play with, which doll is cleaner and which doll is the clean one, they all picked up the white doll. But when negative questions were asked, all of the children picked up the black doll. The evidence from that experience proved that the policies and ways of Jim Crow had a negative effect on these children. This can be related to my story because when someone constantly associates a person with negative connotations because of the way they look, it has an effect on not only the individual, but people who live around them because young children who can be very impressionable, would grow up believing that everyone who looks a certain way is actually what their look connotes.