How Did Jim Crow Laws Affect The Treatment Of African Americans?

After the slaves were freed the production of the South dropped because they were part of the economic production system. The production of the landowners decreased because the labors who worked on their crops were the African Americans but were freed. However, here is where the Jim Crow laws came in by charging African American for minor crimes and imprisoning them to continue their slave work legally but in jail. What Jim Crows laws of segregation where that the African American were put in a second-class status. Signs of where white and colored were put out throughout town legally letting the color people where they were allowed to step in. Many people violated the segregation laws leading to the point of colored being called criminals or predators.
Violence aroused by the white people against colored because they white people were feeling disrespected and disgusted in how colored were trying to mix with them in the environment.
The colored knew that being arrested by the Americans was dangerous because of the treatment towards them, but they still insisted and committed law violations to get arrested. The whites saw the colored people dangerous when it came to jobs or worse mating with Americans and mixing. Segregation was to keep the colored people in their place to the point of not being able to live even in the same town as Americans. Africans had specific areas where they could leave. When voting, American knew that colored people would have no educations so the laws for voting where to those that could not read or write could not vote this prevented colored from voting. This was a strategic way to prevent colored people from voting and once against making them inferior. However, segregation and inequalities laws forced violence and lead to the civil rights movement that was adopted in
1970’s.
The emergence of the prison industrial complex was due to the fact that African Americans were freed. As these individuals were not accepted in society as member but property, the government made laws making minor things such as loitering or vagrancy a crime. This way the officers had a reason to incarcerate these people for years or even lifetime. Due to this system, the business industrialized and factories economic was rising because of the free labor these prisoners were doing for them was a great amount. During in prison, these individuals suffered from mental, physical and exploitation. In the prison industry, prisoners were more like in a big cage where they had to do labor to produce for big industries. Even though the African American were freed with the abolition of slavery and Civil Rights, but then new laws were introduced to strike those colored citizens and put them back in slavery which was in prison. The sentences for minor things were long sentences or even for a lifetime. However, the outcomes of the laws targeting colored people and imprisoning them rapidly increased. Due to the ‘war on drugs,’ there were a number of people being sent to jail due to small possession of marijuana or just simple small offenses. This was more of Southerner strategies for citizens to join Republic Party’s and just discussing African American. This ‘war on drugs’ made it convenient for making those laws and order against drugs and alcohol because this was also the era of hippies where marijuana was a big issue but in order to eliminate these two communities of hippies and blacks these laws were established mainly to focus and having the right to put the blacks in jail. Between the time of 1970 to 1980 and all the ‘drug war’ going on there were 156, 608 incarcerated. This was the Regan Era where the colored people were terrorized and wanted to eliminate them in any way they could of. In the 1994 Federal Crime Bill provided full enforcement of police officers and provided an incentive to those police officers to do punishable acts to the prisoners that would consider today abusive towards the prisoners.

Based on this film being colored was really difficult and still believe it is challenging being colored. However, the way the prison was set up and imprisoned all those colored because they were freed and wanted one way or another to get them out of society. KKK and all the murders they committed on with their bare hands due to those that broke the law but eventually all those people murdered where colored. I totally disagree how these group of people took justice with their hands because nobody deserves to be killed. It always comes to my mind in why the behaviors of the African Americans and how they are always watching their back and crimes in their ‘hood’ neighborhood is high. All these actions were taught in their ancestries all the violence that was committed against them in their nurture environment by their slave owners. What I liked was that Clinton reflected at the end and apologized about the laws and how he forced millions of people into prisoners and separated families. Furthermore, Social construction is built by the society by the way they stereotype each race and categorizing them. Not only were these colored people called and believed these people were criminals but even the own colored people self-perpetuated this idea after being accused so many times of being these type of people. Colored people have shaped these ways so part of who they know I the US is because how the society constructed them and categorized them. People need to rise and speak up to defend themselves and their groups. There will always be politicians who will want colored people out of the street and even out of the country. We still face all this discrimination in the present and have been some cases where officers go to the extreme and physically hurt people during the arrest or even kill them not being necessary to do these actions.