What was so bad about about racial segregation in the south?

Question

of course we all realize how racist and pointless segregation was, but were separate schools and bathrooms really as evil and miserable as they say it was, in the 1960s the south was long over due to come to their senses, but some people try to compare it with n**i discrimination which i think is absurd because one group was killing and torturing people and the other was just separating them

Answer 1

Well, yes, it was pretty terrible.  It sent the overt message that blacks were lesser and less important, and it was racist as h**l.  However, I agree with you that a comparison to the holocaust is a gross exaggeration.  However, let's be clear, there is a relationship with the core of n**i values.  The belif that the white race is superior and that inferior races may be abused or eliminated with impunity is similar.  The fact is that blacks were given sub-standard educational opportunities, sub-standard employment opportunities, and were, in fact, sometimes killed or beaten with virtually complete immunity by whites.  It was, in fact, an overt attempt at keeping blacks down, and at teaching them (and whites) from an early age that they were less than human.  Again, in that sense, there is certainly a strong correlation between Southern Jim Crow ideas and the philosophy of the n***s.  The difference is that the n***s took it a LOT farther, and were generally much more systematic about it.

Answer 2

If you recognize that racism and segregation are pointless the question you have asked is definitely a very biased one. It is not enough to claim that you recognized the pointlessness of these laws, it would be probably be in your best interests to imagine you are the victim of these pointless laws. How would you feel if you had to eat in a separate facility or room? Maybe you wouldn't mind urinating outside or a poorly kept public restroom. Sit in the very back of the bus and then be asked to move further back or to yield your seat to a white person. How demeaned would you feel to experience being called derogatory names, being spit on, considered inferior to the dominant group of people who have a different skin color? I ask these questions in order for you to develop a sense of empathy and indignation about these injustices. These questions are my answer to your question. By the way, I am a Caucasian woman who is 62 yrs. old, lived during the civil rights movement, witnessed the beatings, the bombings that claimed the lives of little girls in a black church, the murders of civil right workers in the South, and I grew up in a family that was highly prejudiced against blacks. I am so thankful that I recognized these attitudes for what they really were and still are in existence today. The Klan is alive and well as well as the skinheads and they exist for the express purpose denigrating people based solely upon the color of their skin.

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Answer 3

well because it wasn't just "separation." there was killing and torturing involved, maybe not by the government, but by citizens. and the government was very racially biased when it came to trying crimes. also, when they were segregated, the white schools and the white bathrooms were higher quality than the black ones. imagine trying to go into a restaurant and someone says "you can't come in here" just because of the color of your skin. that was absurd.

Answer 4

The discrimination was as bad as the n***s but certainly there weren't 6 million people killed by it in just over a decade but the root of the discrimination is as bad.  It's true that having a separate bathroom or not being allowed to attend the same schools etc. is not as bad as being rounded up and put into a death camp.  However at the heart of both the n**i discrimination and the racial discrimination is the notion that one race of people is genetically inferior to another and it is in this way that the racial discrimination was as bad as the one the n***s believed in.  The real problem is that in this so called modern age in which we are so technologically advanced there are people who still believe the nonsense that on the basis of a person's race they are inferior.

Answer 5

oh please segregation is so ignorant and yes its just as bad as n**i discrimination. Their basically saying bc ur a different race u have to use a different bathroom...its ridicules! We are all humans who cares where we take a p**s...a bathroom does the same purpose for all races. Plus we're suppose to moving forward in this day an age not taking a step backwards.