The Ethics Of Living Jim Crow Summary

Some might ask what exactly are ethics? Ethics is a moral principle that governs a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity. Everyone has ethics but everyone's ethics is different from person to person. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow is written by Richard Wright explaining his education in race relations in the south. Wright starts out talking about his childhood and all the racism that he encountered in the south. He writes this story to show us what racism is like on the receiving end and what you can learn from it. Richard wants to show whites all the hardships that blacks went through in the 1900’s. Wright grew up living in Arkansas in a house behind the railroad tracks. When Wright said, “Our yard was paved with black cinders
When Wright finally finished school he talked about how he had to go get a job because his mother couldn’t support him anymore. The only place Wright could get a job was working for the whites at an optical company. When he starts talking about what his boss does to the blacks it hits me very deep. How could someone do that to a human being? I know it was different in these times but the way I look at it race doesn’t change how a person should be
I couldn't imagine living the life of Richard Wright somedays we might think we have it rough but after reading this our lives really aren’t that bad. Not being able to live a normal life such as being told where you can and cannot go, who you can hangout with, and the type of job that you can have is something that I don’t wish on my worst enemy. Wright had a very rough childhood just like many other blacks in this time period. I am not saying that there still isn’t racism in our world today because there is but it’s not like it was in the time of Richard