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The Secret Life Of Bees Racial Discrimination Essay

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INTRODUCTION
For my summer reading I was assigned the book “The Secret Life Of Bees” at first I was hesitant. Would this book be any good? luckily it was. With every page I turned I got an insight into a whole new world filled with prejudice and racism. I couldn't imagine that a world like this actually existed. I couldn't wrap my head around all the ignorance and all the events that had taken place. Nonetheless Sue Monk Kidd did a great job projecting the hard lives of people with colored skin in the 1860s
The Civil Rights Act
At the beginning of the novel Rosaleen is anxious to fix her tv antenna in order to know If the Civil Rights Act will be passed. Conveniently she is just in time to see president Lyndon Johnson sign the act. Rosaleen …show more content…

Except it is not expressed as much as it used to be. Today it is not called racial discrimination but white privilege. Countless of times we have heard of unarmed black men getting shot by white policemen just because they were colored. Its sad that a white man is labeled as mentally ill when he shoots up a school. But when a colored man does the same, he is labeled as a terrorist. All men should be treated equal.
The Jim Crow Era
The Jim Crow era was an era of racial discrimination. Even the government discriminated against colored people. There were even a set of laws that were aimed towards colored people in order to limit their freedom. These laws were called “The Jim Crow Laws” These laws were made to oppress them. The sad thing is that even after “The Civil Rights Act” had passed. The term “equal but separate” was used. Which meant segregation was still alive for many decades after the equal rights movement. Colored people still couldn't attend “white schools” and many policemen turned their heads when white people decided to jump colored people. It is a sad part of american history. But the most tragic thing is that racial discrimination is still alive

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