What Are The Similarities Between African Americans And Jews

Was it right what happened to Blacks and Jews back then? Terrible things happened to both African Americans and Jews. These events caused many people to change their minds about blacks and Jews. Today, people are still affected by what has happened. In the oppression of Jews and African Americans there was many similarities and differences. African Americans were brought into the US by Dutch slave traders. Many slaves worked on plantations for the whites and worked hard everyday. If any disobeyed or tried to escape they were beaten to death or just beaten. Enslaved African Americans could eventually earn freedom by buying it or if their owners made them free. When Blacks finally got rights and were free citizens of the US, they still got discriminated harshly. Martin Luther KIng Jr. was a main impact on African Americans getting rights and freedoms.
1933 Hitler is The Chancellor of Germany. Jews start losing jobs and rights. In 1933 the largest Jewish populations were concentrated in eastern Europe, including Poland,
the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Many of the Jews of eastern Europe lived in predominantly Jewish towns or villages, called shtetls. Eastern European Jews lived a separate life as a minority within the culture of the majority. They even spoke their own language called Yiddish, which is German and Hebrew. Jews and African Americans were both treated terribly, the events that happened to both groups were very similar in ways.
Both Jews and African Americans had laws governing them. The Black codes were laws on African Americans that limited their freedom. Many States required blacks to sign yearly labor contracts, if they didn’t they were forced to labor without being paid, or fined and arrested. Jews weren’t allowed to go to school because of overcrowding issues the Germans didn’t like. Both groups were viewed as less human In the Dred Scott case, black people were considered property. Nazis referred to Jews as rats. When Nazis called Jews subhuman, they meant it. They were both executed and tortured for their differences to other people. Blacks would be beaten to death or hanged for fighting back, leaving the property without permission, and trying to escape or helping slaves escape. Jews were put in concentration camps that would slowly kill
them. African Americans and Jews were treated similarly, but they also had differences in their oppression. Jews lost rights while African Americans slowly gained freedom. Jews that were civil servants and employees were to be excluded from state service. If the enslaved African Americans had enough money they were able to buy their freedom or their slave owners could make them a free man. Jews were no longer tortured after Hitler died, but Blacks were still being discriminated. After Hitler died Germans left and Jews that were still alive were no longer tortured or killed. Blacks still got abused because of their skin and how they looked and tortured. Jews got discriminated because of their religion while blacks did because of their skin color and how they looked. Hitler hated the Jews because of what they believed in. Blacks were brutally beaten because of their skin color because whites thought they were above them. Jews and African Americans were both persecuted back then. Both their lives were similar for a long time during the oppression. Many people were killed in these events and time frame. I think it was very wrong to just kill people because they are different and you think you’re better than them. People were in the wrong just to discriminate and persecute people.