Black Psychology Reflection

Reflection Paper (II) 1. The participants of these crimes passed down racist attitudes, beliefs, and practices to their children. They taught their children the same ideas they believed in, which were white supremacy, racism, hate, and unjust violence against their fellow human beings. I believe they taught their children these beliefs because in more than one of the postcards I viewed I saw children gathered around the corpses of the lynched. They participants passed down the …

…to. Blacks alienated themselves from the members of the white community basically because they had no choice but to. During these times segregation was happening. The blacks separated and were hostile towards whites because of the way whites mistreated them. After being discriminated against, treated only with hate, and being physically assaulted all the time, members of the African-descended community had no choice but to separate themselves from and feel hostile toward the white community.