Injustices toward Native Indians
In the nineteenth century, white Americans committed a great deal of injustices toward people of race. For instance, in the tale "The Impressions of an Indian Childhood," which is recounted by a young narrator, the white people seize native Indians' land and drive them to the far side. Both the father and the daughter in the household were ill. They both perished as a result of the lengthy and dangerous trip they made on foot while fleeing for their lives. The widow, now a mother of one orphan, contemplates that the deceased could be happily enjoying life had it not been for the unkindness of the ‘pale-faced’ people. This is one of the many elements that marked the segregation of the native Indians by the American whites. The other trouble the whites caused that led to the suffering of the American minorities included merciless killings. The narrator through the receiving young daughter opens up the information. She claims that while on the one hand the pale-faced people preached and insisted on the need to love one another, on the contrary, one of their ‘evil’ eyes was open, and it is through this that they sneaked, ambushed, and killed the Indians. Nevertheless, it is critical to not that the white Americans did not only act as elements of harm, but they also helped in the integration of the minorities in America then. For instance, the missionaries practiced the preaching and teaching of the holy word to the people of color. The spiritual nourishment was very essential and paramount to the American communities. The white missionaries went as far as baptizing and commissioning the people of color to the teaching of the word. As such, minorities, especially the Indians, felt welcome and integrated into the American community. Furthermore, the white American created a learning system whereby the minorities attended schools, and they became literate, knew how to read and write. Therefore, the white Americans did not only segregate the minorities but also worked out mechanisms to integrate them into the American society.
European Colonization and Segregation
The Europeans came to America with the intention to spread the gospel. When they encountered the Indian leaders and representatives in authority, they were both humble and kind to their hosts, an element that attracted an equal measure of a cordial welcome. The cross was one critical symbol engaged by the missionaries. For instance, they postulated that the hands of the cross represented the blessings of the host leaders whereas the body was a show of their favorable fate. As such, the European compelled the native Indians to stay submissive and obedient. Nevertheless, as time went by, more Europeans arrived and began to polarize the culture, religion, and beliefs of their hosts. Eventually, the legal systems of the Indians were paralyzed, and the Europeans claimed land ownership by settling forcefully and evacuating some of the native Indians from their land. This was one of the most challenging occurrences the whites used to segregate the minorities. It was as well a somber experience for the Afro-Americans to go through the torment of the white Americans beginning the nineteenth century.
Segregation and Discrimination Against African Americans
In the southern states, plantation farming was the primary economic practice that was being done on a large scale. As such, the laborers were needed in large numbers to work on the farms. The African Americans were sold as slaves, and they worked under hard conditions on the farms, without payment, beatings, and executions. They lacked basic needs like quality healthcare, food, shelter, and even clothing. Furthermore, most of them were persecuted, tortured, and lynched on false allegations. The white Americans claimed that the people of color were raping white women and murdering them. The racial hegemony spread across the America white populations. The Afro-Americans were then the great enemies of the American society, and their killings and merciless lynching would begin hours after every unjustified allegation. Approximately 8 to 10 people were killed in a single week. Theses happenings were major discrimination of the white American against the minorities in the US.
The Impact of Jim Crow Laws and Lynchings
When interviewed, the white women who got pregnant and bore black kid agreed that they had been in normal relationships without force or coerce with their African counterparts. Nevertheless, the white Americans, including the courts of law, did not take the word of kindness. Instead, they could rule that the women had been raped and lynch the Afro-Americans, not even the perceived father of the child but several black Americans. The Jim Crow laws and the lynch laws were wrong legislative perceptions in the hands of the public, where mob lynching was acceptable.
Responses to Injustices
For fear of extermination, the minorities responded to the white American injustices many ways. One is that the black Americans as well organized in many groups and physically fought back against their killers. When the white mobs assembled and came for the lynching, the Afro-Americans could as well retreat and ambush in response, to secure their boundaries. Nevertheless, on most occasions, the physical response was never valid. Consequently, the Afro-Americans used to run away in case of suspected attacks. The fleeing away from urban centers was characterized by mass movements to villages then, where the lynch law was not prevalent as such. The people of color also demonstrated for leadership positions and their civil rights enforcements. The human right advocates paralyzed a critical role, as they raised the attention of the American oppression to the global platform.
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