What Were Racial Discrimination Against African Americans?

After the civil war African Americans did not have all their civil rights. White people were still discriminating Africans. African Americans were still not getting all their rights in Colombia. They were viewed as violent negroes, who were treated unfair to anything done for the benefit of their community. Whites were using violence and discrimination against African Americans. African American were being discriminated because of the Columbian riot, being armed and having the right to protect their community, and newspapers made it out to be that the African Americans were the violent ones. Even when African Americans were veterans nothing was ever said regarding them serving in the army in the newspapers.
It all started when African Americans went on a riot to protect their own community, which was viewed by the white as disturbance against them. According to the newspaper “The press tried to work up a hysterical fear that the communists had stirred up the Columbia Negroes and gotten them to plan the mass murder of white citizens.”1 African Americans were looked down on, because of their color skin. Even when they were armed and on a riot to protect their community and nothing else they were still being discriminated against. The white believed that African Americans were making a distribution and nothing else. The also white believed that the African Americans that did not go on the riot were better citizens then the Negroes that did. The riot was a useless disturbance to the white. 1 Nashville Globe, March 1, 1946, p.1 The African Americans newspapers were trying to explain why they went on a riot. The newspaper was trying to fix the studied attempt of the press to misled the people of why African Americans went on a riot. The riot was just an attempt to protect their community. The white used the riot against African Americans. The end results were that the white newspapers declared “Sheriff J. J. underwood this afternoon deputized state patrolmen and members of national guard units to search every home in Columbia for deadly weapons.”2 It did not matter if your white or black, if weapons were found in your house you would be taken away. The ironic thing is that most of them were African Americans and not a lot of white. The punishment for having weapons in their homes was also different, because of racial discrimination. African Americans were misunderstood all over the country because of the Columbian riot. …show more content…
In the white newspapers was where most of the misunderstanding happened, the white newspapers made it out to be that African Americans were violent people who carried weapons on them. The white discriminated African Americans because of their skin color. Many white people used the press against Africans Americans. A lot of people were the result to the racial discriminations, for example many people got arrested and died due to the homes searches. All because the white believed that African Americans were violent and did a useless thing such as the Colombian riot.
African Americans were the innocent people in this argument. All they wanted was their civil rights, that they fought so hard for it in the civil war. Even when the Africans fought in the civil war they did not get the respect they deserved. The Colombian riot was one reason Africans got discriminated, the newspapers were also a reason why African Americans were looked at as 2 Columbia Daily Herald, February 26, 1946, p. 1 Violent people, and even when Africans fought in the civil war they were not getting the respect they deserved. It does not matter who you are, your color, and where your from were all the same people. We all have the same rights. After the civil war African Americans did not have all their civil rights. White people were still discriminating Africans. African Americans were still not getting all their rights in Colombia. They were viewed as violent negroes, who were treated unfair to anything done for the benefit of their community. Whites were using violence and discrimination against African Americans. African American were being discriminated because of the Columbian riot, being armed