However, the law that I have chosen to write about has to do with restaurants and it is that:
"all persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same license".
This means that people can have restaurants restricted to negroes, or white restaurants restricted to whites, but no restaurants for both. This law was from Georgia. I believe that Georgia passed this law because they thought that negroes weren't people (white people were treated better) and had to have their own separate restaurants for the lower class. Also, they probably were afraid that they would catch some sort of disease from sitting at a table where a colored person once sat, or eating from a utensil that was once in a negroe's mouth. The motivation of white people to enhance these laws were probably just to make them seem bigger or more important. They enjoyed the fact that they were the ones who were being treated correctly and not the black people, with whom they thought were some sort of "creature" with no right to being an equal, even if it is said that the Jim Crow laws were to separate but to keep equal. Besides, if that was to be true, then why would a black person have to give up their seat for a white person on the bus? See, that's not equality, that's treating the black person unfairly.
As you can probably tell, I am not a fan at all of the Jim Crow law. I think that it is absolutely unnecessary to pass a law for people to have separate restaurants, what's the point? If peoples' excuses were that they would catch some sort of disease, then go, touch a black person's arm, go to the doctor, and you'd be fine! After all, the black people never suffered any diseases from living in their own skin. If it was up to me, these laws would never have existed.
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