I have chosen to write about the hatred against blacks in the South. I am going to discuss this statement: Whites in the South all hated blacks and thought they were inferior.
I disagree with this statement. First of all, I think that many people thought black and white people deserved the same rights, but they were too afraid to say anything. One example from Mississippi Burning is, when Agent Anderson talks with Mrs. Pell. She does not like all the hatred in Mississippi and other states. However, she is to afraid to help the police, and when she finally says something to the police, her husband beats her.
Racists all over USA used fear as a weapon. I think this is one of the reasons why many white people did not dare to talk with the police. They could be lynched or tortured if they were seen speaking to the police. The racists, and especially, the Ku Klux Klan, had very brutal methods to make people fear them.
As said earlier, I do not think that whites in the South all hated blacks and thought they were inferior. On the other hand, I think that people in the South learned to live with the hatred, although they thought it was wrong. In one scene of the movie, Mrs. Pell tells Agent Anderson how all white kids learned that black people were inferior. I think that some people realised that this was wrong when they became older, but they did not say their opinion. In this situation, we can learn from brave men like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King jr. King played a huge role in the civil rights movement, because he dared to say his opinion out loud.
As a conclusion, I disagree with the statement because racists in the 60’s used fear as a weapon, and that is why many people thought it was easier to not say anything, in stead of telling their opinion.
If you want to know more about Mississippi Burning, read more.
Jens P(96)
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