Chicago’s South Side has changed quite a bit since the 1950’s. People are not living in tiny apartments where you have to share bathrooms with people on your floor. The South Side is still mostly blacks and the northern and western sides of Chicago are mostly white. South side neighborhoods did not seem to be like in the 1950’s mostly because of the housing size, but today people on the south side are not sharing one bathroom with other people on their floor in the apartment buildings. In the 1950’s blacks were disliked by the whites so much that blacks and whites could both be doing something wrong but only the black person will have to pay the consequences. Today Blacks and whites can live in the same neighborhood without much of a problem.
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Bobo on the other hand gets a ticket for having his car in the same area because he is black. During this time this was normal, the blacks were targeted to make them seem like nobodys or like an anomaly. Whereas today we can see that blacks and whites are not much different. If a white man breaks the law there will be consequences and the same for a black man. A judge can not discriminate against someone because of their race, sex religion or national origin, everyone is they same in the eyes of the law, (Code of Conduct for United States Judges, 2014). If both a white and black man commit the same crime they both should have the same sentence, consequences, bond, or ticket. Everyone must be treated the same way in they eyes of the law, although that does not always happen as we have seen by various police shooting black teenagers and young adults around the country. Comparing the way that police discriminated back in the 1950’s does not even come close to the few police shooting at another man because the police felt …show more content…
It was cramped, plain, outdated, and not ideal by any standards we have today. Apartments were small depending on how much money you had depended on how big the apartments were. “A former six-flat might now have twenty or more kitchenettes. These units had a single room, equipped with a bed, stove and icebox,” (Schmidt, 2012, para 4). Some apartments were only one room some had two to three rooms and they had to share a bathroom with the people on their floor. Not only are these rooms small, but they were housing several people in them, sometimes whole families lived in one of these small apartments. The richer and more fortunate blacks may have had a house rather than an apartment but they still were not as fancy as the white people 's houses. In the play Mama says, “I just tried to find the nicest place for the least amount of money for my family,” which happens to be in Clybourne Park where “there ain’t no black people living,” (Hansberry, 1966, pg 72). Today blacks and whites are able to get along enough to allow each other to be in the same neighborhoods. The map to the below shows the percentage of whites blacks, asian, and latinos in a certain area in Chicago in 2000. You can see that more blacks stayed on the South Side than anywhere else but there are areas farther north with 60% white population, which proves that blacks, whites
Bobo on the other hand gets a ticket for having his car in the same area because he is black. During this time this was normal, the blacks were targeted to make them seem like nobodys or like an anomaly. Whereas today we can see that blacks and whites are not much different. If a white man breaks the law there will be consequences and the same for a black man. A judge can not discriminate against someone because of their race, sex religion or national origin, everyone is they same in the eyes of the law, (Code of Conduct for United States Judges, 2014). If both a white and black man commit the same crime they both should have the same sentence, consequences, bond, or ticket. Everyone must be treated the same way in they eyes of the law, although that does not always happen as we have seen by various police shooting black teenagers and young adults around the country. Comparing the way that police discriminated back in the 1950’s does not even come close to the few police shooting at another man because the police felt …show more content…
It was cramped, plain, outdated, and not ideal by any standards we have today. Apartments were small depending on how much money you had depended on how big the apartments were. “A former six-flat might now have twenty or more kitchenettes. These units had a single room, equipped with a bed, stove and icebox,” (Schmidt, 2012, para 4). Some apartments were only one room some had two to three rooms and they had to share a bathroom with the people on their floor. Not only are these rooms small, but they were housing several people in them, sometimes whole families lived in one of these small apartments. The richer and more fortunate blacks may have had a house rather than an apartment but they still were not as fancy as the white people 's houses. In the play Mama says, “I just tried to find the nicest place for the least amount of money for my family,” which happens to be in Clybourne Park where “there ain’t no black people living,” (Hansberry, 1966, pg 72). Today blacks and whites are able to get along enough to allow each other to be in the same neighborhoods. The map to the below shows the percentage of whites blacks, asian, and latinos in a certain area in Chicago in 2000. You can see that more blacks stayed on the South Side than anywhere else but there are areas farther north with 60% white population, which proves that blacks, whites