Mean Ole' Jim Crow.

The Jim Crow laws were enacted after the civil War in order to keep blacks from gaining many of the freedoms that they had gained as a result of said event. They were a vicious atrocity to human rights and I, a white man more than 100 years later, still feel a white guilt as a result of them. I know I had nothing to do with it, and my ancestors had nothing to with it either, but is the way I feel justified? I don’t know. I can’t understand how people could have not done anything about it, I mean they weren’t actually a secret were they.  The only thing that gives me some relief from my guilt is the fact that it is over now.

Where is the Jim Crow section 
On this merry-go-round, 
Mister, cause I want to ride?
Down South where I come from 
White and colored 
Can't sit side by side. 
Down South on the train 
There's a Jim Crow car. 
On the bus we're put in the back--
But there ain't no back 
To a merry-go-round! 
Where's the horse 
For a kid that's black?