Oppression

Oppression

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Matt Schram oppression

"You aint got no buisness bringin white chillun here-they got their church, we got ours,aint it, Miss Cal?"

This quote was said by one of the churches for black people and I thought that this shows oppression both ways.This shows that they are both oppressing each other, because the white people didn't allow black people int their own church, so black people have a separate church for themselves, and its probably not as nice as theirs.Also, the ones being oppressed didn't like it when white people used their things since they found it unfair that they weren't allowed to go to the white peoples church but were allowed to go to their church.
What I think is wrong is that they weren't allowed to go to church together, even though that they believed in the same religion. But it wasn't only the church back then, it was everywhere in the south. There was separate seating at restaurants, bathrooms, schools, even the water fountains were different from the ones that white people used, and most of the times the black people's facilities were not as good as the white people's. Now what could have fixed the problem was that they could have let everyone use the facilities that white people were using, or at least make the black people's facilities nicer.
Oppression is still going on today, like police brutality which is putting the police above every one else. Now not all of these are done on purpose or for racial reasons, but there are still quite a few of these happenings that have been caused by racism.

2 comments:

  1. I understand your response, but this quote was said by one particularly bitter woman, and right after this quote in the book the others warmly accepted Jem and Scout into the church. The oppression may have been a more individual thing. But I do think this quote is very appropriate and relevant to the topic of oppression, thank you for sharing your response.

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  2. I agree with everything that you are saying. Especially when yo said that oppression is still going on

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