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Essay / What are the most critical gaps in...
Laws can change and be enforced, but if people's hearts don't change, nothing will change. The perennialization of Jim Crow entertainment helped fuel the fire of people's indifference toward African Americans. Jim Crow entertainment typically involved white men dressing up as black people and presenting extremely derogatory caricatures. In 1941, this misleading propaganda was still relevant in the 1900s and is no more clearly illustrated than in Warner Bros., "All This And Rabbit Stew" starring Bugs Bunny. Children are not born with resentment toward a race or ethnic group programmed into their heads by what they see around them and what the society around them considers right, or even just normal. This form of entertainment ensured that deep-seated hatred would not die with the Civil War generation, but would be passed down from generation to generation, and although Jim Crow entertainment did not always make fun of black people, the concept is still relevant today.