While The World Watched

 

I was reading the book While The World Watched in class. It took place in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960s. What happened to all the black people in Alabama at that time was really unfair. For example, one Sunday morning in the First Baptist Church there was a bomb in the girl’s bathroom and it killed three girls. Another thing that happened is Black people got kicked out of restaurants and could not sit in the front of the buses. And they got whipped and tortured because of their skin color. The fire department sprayed them with their hoses that were so powerful that it ripped out their hair. The white people did a lot more stuff to them that is not ok to do to people.

 

Some of the Jim Crow Laws are that white and black people have to go to a different school. They cannot share textbooks or anything else with the white people. Another law is that they cannot play together. And they cannot be in the same pool as white people. And if the white people want to play baseball the black people have to be two blocks away from them. They cannot drink from the same drinking fountain as the white. They cannot eat at the same restaurants as white. And they cannot I sit in front of the bus. And if a  white person does not have a seat on the bus they have to give it up to them.

So, in the end, I think that it is not ok to treat black people like that. I know that I would not like to be treated like that. And it makes me mad that people got treated like that. Some people still get treated like that today. In the US there are some black people that are not getting treated how they should be and that’s NOT ok. We all desire to be happy and have people that will be fair. That is not happing all the time. We are all the same in God’s eyes. So why should we care what color skin we have? We are the same inside so why should we care?