In this group, we believe that segregation is still a problem today. We think that today, people are being segregated due to stereotypes and also being segregated by the retailer of a house. The retailer will try to sell houses to minorities away from the white population. Another example of this is white cops shooting black unarmed people. An example is the Ferguson shooting where a black male was shot by a white cop several times for reaching his hand into his pocket to grab some skittles. There has been many of these “white cop shooting black man” incidents lately and it is said that a year after Michael Brown’s fatal shooting, unarmed unarmed black men are seven times more likely than whites to die by police gunfire. We think that pretty soon nobody
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It took the Civil War to try to end this nonsense. Even after the Union won, the confederates were not done and found a way around “segregation” and this way was in the form of black codes and Jim Crow laws. Black codes were laws that were passed to segregate against black and other minority groups. Jim Crow laws which allowed segregation in public schools, public places, public transportation and much more in the south. After these were put to a stop due to the 13th,14th , and 15th amendment. These three amendments are what is keeping blacks and minorities safe today and also citizens of the U.S. Without minority groups, America would not be the, “land of the free and home of the brave”. Another thing that we learned was that whites did not just segregate against black people but also other groups like Irish, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Europeans. There was actually a gentleman's agreement with Japan and the U.S. to stop Japanese laborers from coming to the U.S. This also went for the Chinese but thought the Chinese Exclusion
It took the Civil War to try to end this nonsense. Even after the Union won, the confederates were not done and found a way around “segregation” and this way was in the form of black codes and Jim Crow laws. Black codes were laws that were passed to segregate against black and other minority groups. Jim Crow laws which allowed segregation in public schools, public places, public transportation and much more in the south. After these were put to a stop due to the 13th,14th , and 15th amendment. These three amendments are what is keeping blacks and minorities safe today and also citizens of the U.S. Without minority groups, America would not be the, “land of the free and home of the brave”. Another thing that we learned was that whites did not just segregate against black people but also other groups like Irish, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Europeans. There was actually a gentleman's agreement with Japan and the U.S. to stop Japanese laborers from coming to the U.S. This also went for the Chinese but thought the Chinese Exclusion