Question

In your opinion do you feel that the current situation of this year is a result of Jim Crow laws?

Answer 1

Answer:

Indeed, the situation of racial tension between whites and African Americans that is taking place today is part of a complex historical process, which began with the slavery of black people in the south of the country, the Civil War and African American emancipation and, later, the failed Reconstruction process and the Jim Crow Laws.

Thus, during the Jim Crow Laws, the southern states established limitations on the rights and freedoms of African Americans, both in their political and social and economic aspects. For this reason, a kind of institutional inequality began to develop between whites and African Americans, where the latter did not have the same capacity to exercise their rights as whites.

This situation has been maintained, with gradual but slow changes, until today, where even today there are certain inequalities, although no longer institutionalized, between whites and blacks.