I can't believe how literacy test were set up for African Americans to vote. The questions couldn't even be answer by the creator of the questions. Questions like "How many bubbles are in a bar of soap?" Or "How many marbles are in the pile?" it shows how well whites kept education away from blacks. What irritated me most was the little white girl singing a modified nursery rhyme that went like "Eeny meeny miny mo, catch a n***** by his toe, if he hollers make him pay fifty dollars." To me it seems like the exposure to the racist way of life was planted into the white youth at as young as 3 and 4, because right away you could tell by how the way the children looked at blacks and communicated with them.
Jordan Monroe
City Neighbors High School
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