Separate But Equal Is It Fair

Separate But Equal, Is It Fair?

Although people say “Separate but Equal”is fair, is it really? In fact most of the time it’s not necessarily fair. Back then African Americans were treated unfairly in more ways than one. They had separate seating sections at baseball games. Instead of sitting in seats they would have to stand on boxes. Each person only got one box, often leading to children not being able to watch the game due to the wooden fence that stood in front of them. Plus, it doesn’t look like they are able to buy any team merchandise to cheer on their team. Even though they were said to be treated equal while being separate, it wasn’t really fair.

In the first place, African Americans had different seating sections at many places such as a bus, or even a stadium. In the cartoon picture you can see that the Whites are seated as far away as they could possibly be from the African Americans. They are all the way across the stadium, trying to avoid the African Americans at all costs. You can also see that the Whites have the better seating section out of the stadium. Even though the African Americans got to watch the baseball game were they being treated with equality or equity.
The Cartoon picture on the left shows that they only got one box per person. This caused the littlest of the three to be blind to the game. In the picture on the right the oldest had given the little kid his box so that he may see the game. The man is showing equity, making sure the kid got a good view. Instead of giving the African Americans one box each person, they should have given them enough boxes so that they could each watch the game. Even though they were given the same things, being separate wasn’t