Who Was Jim Crow? Was Jim Crow a Real Person?

Gab1930s
4 min readApr 8, 2021

A Mentality…Possibly

Jim Crow and White Supremacy is only a ideology…the creator didn’t create a superior race

Jim Crow-A white actor in the early 1830’s by the names of Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a native New York, started preforming a theater act called “Jumping Jim Crow” or “Jump Crow”, consequently the Jim Crow Law, was birth as a results of what Rice created as a derogatory term too make fun of blacks. In a interview Rice claimed to have first created the character after witnessing an elderly Black man singing a tune called “Jump Jim Crow” in Louisville, Kentucky. In a instance Jim Crow’s popularity as a fictional character eventually died out, but in the late 19th century the phrase found new life as a blanket term for a wave of anti-Black laws laid down after

Reconstruction.

Laws, was eventually installed into what as known as Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote.

The results of Jim Crow Laws are as follows:

Redeemers

Who known as the Redeemer’s, “Redeemers” were southern Democrats who wanted to restore white supremacy in the South. They wanted to replace “bayonet rule” with “home rule.” Why was “Grandfather Clause” instituted, it was a device used by southern states to disenfranchise African Americans. It restricted voting to those whose grandfathers had voted before 1867.

Separate But Equal

An argument that states made claiming Jim Crow laws did not violate the equal protection clause because the separate schools and facilities for blacks were equal to those provided for whites

Poll Tax

Poll Tax-A fee of several dollars that had to be paid before a person could vote; a device used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting.

What Laws was passed following the Civil War?, “The Black Codes”

Conclusion

Personally, I don’t feel effected by “Jim Crow” subliminal thoughts and attitudes of superiority. I truly believe you’re a subject of your own thoughts, and my thoughts are that no one or a race of people are superior. Again, in my personal opinion, you are what you think you are, and, if you give your power over to how others think of you, then you become that thing by accepting their thoughts. It’s merely a mental power grab, how’s it’s possible that the last people to come into existence, are now the most intelligent and superior people on the earth. Superiority, only exist in the minds of those who think so, and those who accept their beliefs and thinking. In regards to “Jim Crow” and a comparison to “Willie Lynch” theories, both have similarities, for example “Jim Crow” is a process of mental suggestive behavior and thoughts of how one race views another, when it comes superiority. The latter process of “Willie Lynch”, are too force the would be individuals, by way of physical punishment, through beating and torture, in contrast the both has had there separate results in many ways they was effective in gaining the goals the conquerors intended. Now, America is changing, and the fear of those changes are frightening the people of the caucasians to death. In their defense, in today’s political arenas, they’re scrambling to implement, as many laws as possible to remain in somewhat political power as necessary, to keep and preserved the superiority stances that they have always enjoyed. Invasive species thrive, it’s only a matter of time that the invasive species must resurfaced again, and take their rightful places on the earth. As the old saying goes, “You Can Keep a Good Man Down Forever”, it’s only conceivable that the before lessor species will become strong again, against all odds…that’s how nature rewards those who follow the order and stay in compliance with the human ecosystem of evolution. In this theory of the beliefs that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, has been a false narrative and thus a political one from the offset. And that people of other racial and ethnic groups, in particular black or Jewish people should be ruled over. As a political ideology, in my view has always been the foundation of this process and thinking from the beginning. In viewing “white supremacy” again, in my opinion, white people has been refer to a social system in which white people enjoy structural advantages (privilege) over other ethnic groups…which doesn’t necessarily mean that whites are more intelligent, and/or intellectual than their counterparts. Again, It’s a false narrative. Tracing back White supremacy has had a ideological foundations that date back to 17th-century scientific racism…putting all in a prospective. Looking at the time White supremacy was dominant in the United States both before and after the American Civil War…The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited U.S. citizenship to whites only. In summary consideration by “white supremacy” I do not mean to allude only to the self-conscious racism of white supremacist hate groups. I refer instead to a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread. “Jim Crow“ is definitely a dying process in my opinion, the forces and the energy backing those forces are on the decline, because nothing in the universe stays the same, life, and the earth is ever involving at a record pace, even though, if the masses doesn’t recognize, it ineffable, that changed will remain in consistency…

Sources:

https://www.google.com/search?q=white+supremacy&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari.

https://quizlet.com/122650164/civil-rights-and-society-black-codes-flash-cards/.

https://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/a-brief-history-of-jim-crow.

https://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Jim-Crow-law.

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Gab1930s

Ibrahim A. Arrahim has studied and observed men’s fashion since he was 12 years old. He says, “It’s my life’s passion to be very involved in this tradition a