Wednesday, March 11, 2009

What observation did you make on the movie "Separate but not Equal" that depict the unequal treatment of African Americans?

The movie played in the early 50ties and shows the injustices between African American and white people. In this time there was segregation between these two races. They had separate schools, churches, bars and communities. It shows a “black” school in South Carolina which is very simple and they haven’t the standard from this time it rather looks really dirty, old and decrepit. They have no school bus or other means of transport to come to school. All the children walk long distance to their classes in contrast the white privileged” children drove with many buses to their “high standard” school. One day, the referent form the African American school went to the supervisor from the White school and bagged for only one old bus but he said “NO”. After the law they were equal but in the reality there was a big abyss between the people. The African American were sacred from the power of the white, because many of them worked and the plantation and in the houses of the white people and they would lose their job if the sign up and support the stream for fairness and equality, so it was a real quandary for the people.