All my life I just had this knack for being loyal and having blind faith. To this day I live by the saying “ Loyalty is Royalty.” Also, I 've always had blind faith in my lord and savior without hesitation or questioning his doings or reasonings. If you show me any kind of love or you just keep me alive, you will be entitled with my loyalty. My mother is to credit for who I am today. Also, my mother credits her mother and it goes on and on. Regarding all of that, loyalty and faith can also be eliminated simply by knowledge and being mistreated. For countless years blacks have been beaten, lynched, blacklisted, segregated, etc. For just as many of those years some African Americans seen that as normal. They just thought that that 's the way
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So when they were freed and they just left without hesitation that just added fuel to the fire with the white southerners hatred towards their former slaves. “By 1900 the south 's black population was more powerless than at any other time since the death of slavery”(Fairclough 17). The fact the slaves did not share the same emotions as the whites southerners did, the same affection, the same feelings just completely demoralized for the white southerners. That 's the main thing that accounted for the change to how white southerners viewed their slaves. Also the fact that there were no more slaves left jobs from as big as keeping up with crops to as little as washing the dishes in the house. That left the white southerners at a halt in the regard of not being able to complete task because of the lack of numbers and knowledge to get the jobs done. That led to stress for the white southerners. To relieve their stress the white southerners would take their anger out an innocent black male. “The most important fact about lynching was not the number of blacks who were killed but the ability of whites to kill, and torture, with impunity”(Fairclough 24). So whites weren 't just killing to relieve stress, but to exercise the fact that they can kill and get away with
So when they were freed and they just left without hesitation that just added fuel to the fire with the white southerners hatred towards their former slaves. “By 1900 the south 's black population was more powerless than at any other time since the death of slavery”(Fairclough 17). The fact the slaves did not share the same emotions as the whites southerners did, the same affection, the same feelings just completely demoralized for the white southerners. That 's the main thing that accounted for the change to how white southerners viewed their slaves. Also the fact that there were no more slaves left jobs from as big as keeping up with crops to as little as washing the dishes in the house. That left the white southerners at a halt in the regard of not being able to complete task because of the lack of numbers and knowledge to get the jobs done. That led to stress for the white southerners. To relieve their stress the white southerners would take their anger out an innocent black male. “The most important fact about lynching was not the number of blacks who were killed but the ability of whites to kill, and torture, with impunity”(Fairclough 24). So whites weren 't just killing to relieve stress, but to exercise the fact that they can kill and get away with