Sunday, March 8, 2009

Unequal treatment of African American in the movie "Separate but Equal"

After watching the movie “Separate but Equal”, I can observe that it was unequal treatment of African American in the past. While the “white-students” had more than 30 buses to go to school, the African American (A.A) students had no one. They -A.A- had to walk 5 miles to school in the sunny, hot, dust or rain weather. They absolutely would get sick and they might not want to go to school because going to school would be their nightmare. In addition, they just had only one “common school”, which was transformed from a church. There were many different class-group studied at the same time, in the same room, with the same teacher. They studied in a dearth material and technical basis for study. They also did not have enough teachers for each “group class”. It was unfair since there were many teachers for “white students”; they had all full material, and technical for study, they had many schools with the large campus, etc. The A-A people had to pay tax as equal as the “while people” or even more than that, they could not enjoy the equal treatment in their lives. Therefore, they asked for their right by signing on the petition and sending it to the federal.

1 comment:

Tiffany said...

Yep!They should ask their rights because they are Americans. No matter how they come or what they do before, they should have the same treatment as white people.