JUSTIFICATION FOR SLAVERY - WHITE SUPREMACY What was being considered by the Founding Fathers was the topic of the alleged racial inferiority of Africans. Were African Americans equipped for being incorporated as residents in the new United States? Were the differences between Africans and white Americans that far apart? Is there any wonder why there was no conclusive evidence to resolve these inquiries—the only major difference was the complexion. The physical differences between people of different continents were really highlighted as Europeans navigated the globe from the 1400s. Europeans had been making cultural and physical observations and comparisons between Europeans, Africans and Native Americans in the 1600s and 1700s. However, …show more content…
As punishment for gazing on his naked fathers body, the descendants of Ham were forever cursed. According to the doctrine of racism that curse took the form of blackened skin. This is where the justification for slavery originated. In order for god-fearing, pious, exemplary citizens to participate in something as criminal and ungodly as slavery, you would have to have a doctrine to base your actions on. Religion has been the excuse for countless act of terrorism, and much worse than what happens with Isis and the Taliban of today, slavery was the greatest form of terrorism in our country’s history. In addition to the bible doctrine, there were clear physical differences between the races bodies. Complexions were the most glaring characteristics popping out at explorers and settlers. That would be the main hallmark and branding iron that would follow people of color from the days of African slavery all the way through media and into the White House today. From this point on, and all through history it is almost as if the colored complexion was a curse. Another justification that was added, and didn’t help, was the fact that there seemed to be biological …show more content…
Jim Crow laws were put into effect by Southern states that made a hierarchy of race in the American South. By 1914 those laws successfully made two separate social orders--one black and one white. According to the conflict perspective if inequality exists for too long there is bound to be a revolution. The revolution from the conflict perspective started in 1954. The United States Supreme Court struck down segregation in the country 's government funded schools—causing racial tension in education. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in 1955, and that started the civil rights movement. Riots, bombings, beatings and shootings were the regular as African Americans protested in the following years. Those protests eventually moved President John F. Kennedy to send to Congress a civil rights bill on June 19, 1963. The proposed enactment offered government protection to African Americans trying to vote, to shop, to eat out, and to be educated on equal
Race Was Invented To Justify Slavery Once people are defined as inhuman because of the color of their skin, you are free to treat them like animals. This is exactly what happened to blacks in America. The first blacks who arrived in Virginia where from Europe, not Africa. They came to Virginia in 1619 and were not initially considered slaves.
From the time of the American Revolution in 1776, to the year 1852, there has been many causes to the opposition to slavery. Some have shown the support for increased opposition while others have shown to not support this opposition. This has caused many disputes about who is in the right. There is plenty of evidence between the two groups which were either supporting the opposition to slavery or they were not supporting the opposition. Three causes exist in support of and against this opposition: Social Darwinism, increased tolerance, and the need to unite the nation.
The Fourteenth Amendment was being challenged. As a result In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court of The United States defined the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas’s discrimination and segregation toward Brown’s daughter as unconstitutional and demand all public schools in America be desegregated ("Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" 347 U.S. 483). Although the Supreme Court said all public schools need to be desegregated, the process is very long due to President Dwight D. Eisenhower's fear of losing the white southern vote. In 1955, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks got on a bus but refused to give the seat to a white person; she was arrested for this incident. As a response to this, African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior started the Bus Boycott which forced the bus line Rosa Parks got arrested to be desegregated.
In 1619, when slavery began in America, slaves were used as a force of labor to build and work on the new land. Unfortunately, slavery continued on for the next three centuries in the United States. Today, people view slavery as an inhumane and cruel way of treating people, but back then many people saw nothing wrong with the holding of slaves. For the most part, slavery was morally and ethically wrong since the enslavement of people was terrible. In general, slavery is unfitting because Thomas Jefferson once said “...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...”
As current time and social status are being challenged and pushed, the Jim Crow Laws were implemented. These state and local laws were just legislated this year, 1877. New implemented laws mandate segregation in all public facilities, with a “separate but equal” status for African Americans. This may lead to treatment and accommodations that are inferior to those provided to white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational, and social disadvantages.
By using this reference, it illustrated the severity of the alienation of blacks in the Southern United States. In 1619, a Dutch ship “introduced the first captured Africans to America, planting the seeds of a slavery system that evolved into a nightmare of abuse and cruelty that would ultimately divide the nation”. The Africans were not treated humanely, but were treated as workers with no rights. Originally, they were to work for poor white families for seven years and receive land and freedom in return. As the colonies prospered, the colonists did not want to give up their workers and in 1641, slavery was legalized.
Even though it granted Blacks citizenship it did not give them equality, and soon arose numerous
The African – American 's Assimilation into White America America is often considered the land of opportunities, a place where people can have a fresh start, a clean slate. America is a land that is made up of immigrants. Over the centuries America has been a place where people dream to live in, however the American dream wasn 't as perfect as believed; there were issues of race inferiority, slavery and social inequality amongst other problems. When a person arrives into a new society he has a difficult task ahead of him- to assimilate into that new society- which includes the economical, cultural, political and social aspects. In the following paper I will discuss how the African American, who came as slaves to America, has fought over the centuries to achieve equality in a white society that discriminated them.
In this paper, I will focus on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I will provide the history, the important people involved in the establishment of the Civil Rights Act, the events that led to the act, and the reactions from the people, mostly Southerners, after the act was established. In the year of 1963, Blacks were experiencing high racial injustice and widespread violence was inflicted upon them. The outcry of the harsh treatments inflicted upon them caused Kennedy to propose the Civil Rights Act.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is hailed by many as one of the most important legislations in the American history. The act was passed into law 52 years ago under a lot of pressure and resistance from white senators and African American activists. The act, which was largely known as the “Bill of the century” was aimed at bringing equality for blacks and whites and end racial prejudice. The act was targeted to revolutionize America where blacks and whites would eat together in the same hotels and enjoy similar rights in public places without any discrimination.
It is known that during the Jim Crow era where whites were to be respected and blacks were to be put down as lesser people, relationships between the two races would be extremely dangerous for both sides. However, this way of structure for the society was absolutely false as it had completely gone against what the amendments had put in place for citizens of the United States of America. For example, the 14th amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” This clearly shows that every living person on the planet earth is to be treated equally with just laws that restrict them in no way.
The Civil Rights movement is one of the most discussed topics in American history. Segregation played a big time role in the 1960’s. White people and colored people had different restrooms, water fountains, and other public features. Thankfully, these things are not segregated today! Rosa Parks was one of the blacks that wanted to end segregation.
The 1950s were a very difficult time for the average African-American going so far that, they had segregation to the most basic things like toilets, drinking fountains, buses and schools. Despite the “Brown versus board” chapter history in 1954 which condemned segregation in schools on constitutional, only a very few handful of black African-Americans actually went to a school they had white people in it in the south of America. African-Americans still like this and this was shown even before 1 December 1955 when wasn’t Parks who have already made history was arrested. This was shown by groups like ^^^^^. Their struggle and for many of us, it is acturely our struggle became a lot easier on 1 December 1955 when Rosa was Parks was arrested, simply refusing to give up her seat but could someone else want to sit down and believed he was entitled to her seat simply because he was white and she was black.
Masters that raped their slaves did not fear arrest, but feared the public knowing that they would sleep with a negro. Fathering children with their female slaves was a daily practice and even though their children were half white they were doomed to share the same fate as their mothers. Two kids with the same father, but their futures predetermined by the color of their skin. Slavery was just unfair and wrong but what can you do when your opinion does not
Ideas of racial superiority originate as far back as the Middle Ages. In addition, attitudes were sanctioned and further developed among Europeans during the Renaissance and Reformation. Europeans increasingly came in contact with African cultures and people of darker skin complexion. With uneasy feelings about differing cultures and physical appearance came judgement and justification for abhorrent behavior. Religion was used a weapon to offer rationale for physical enslavement of Africans (Fredrickson, 2003).