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Friday, May 23, 2014
Post-Reconstruction: A Nadir in Race Relations 1890-1920
Is “fairness” the same as “equality?” In the Post Reconstruction Era, what policies and practices limit social equity or oppress the Black community? What guides ideas for social uplift?
"Fairness" and "equality" are not the same thing. Equality means everything is the same. It promotes fairness by giving people the same things, but this means everyone has to start out the same. Fairness is when people are given access to the same opportunities no matter where they came from. Differences, which can create barriers for some people, are not discriminated upon. Instead, they are used to promote fairness. Fairness caters to peoples' needs, and though it may not seem equal, fairness is needed to get to equality. A good example of fairness vs. equality was the picture from our class discussion where there are three people shown watching a game, each being a different height. On one side, each person is shown with one box to stand on, which would be considered equality. However, the other picture shows fairness because the boxes are given to the people who need it more. A practice that limited social equity in the Post Reconstruction Era was sharecropping. Basically landowners give sharecroppers land in exchange for half the crops they grow. The sharecropper does all the work and gives the landowner crops to sell. He also buys clothes and other goods using the landowner's money. In the end, the landowner claims that the sharecropper owes more money than he made, which requires them to work off their debt. The sharecroppers were most likely uneducated and could not argue with the landowner, resulting in them being tied to one plantation and making little money. The sharecroppers are taken advantage of by the landowners, which does not promote fairness (equity). Another practice that limited social equity and oppressed Blacks was disenfranchisement. Even thought the 15th amendment gave all men the right to vote, it was not enforced by some of states. Poll taxes and literacy tests stopped Blacks from voting. These tests could ask anything and were made hard to pass in an attempt to make elections benefit a certain group. The things that limited African American's social and political rights brought about social uplift. Ideas for social uplift were guided by the thought leaders we discussed in class, such as W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington. One idea was the talented 10th Dubois talked about. The idea was that the exceptional men of any race would uplift the rest of it. In the case of Blacks, Dubois thought the best educated 10% of the Black population would advance the cause of the entire population. In conclusion, the idea that the "talented tenth" would promote progress for their race guided ideas for social uplift.
Much like Gianna said, I don't think that "fairness" and "equality" are the same thing. If a group of people are equal, this means that they are treated the same. If a group of people are treated fairly, this mean that everybody is free from any kind of judgement or discrimination. We can live in a world where every one is treated equality, but that doesn't mean we would live in a world where everyone is treated fairly and treated without discrimination. There were many different policies that limit social equity, such as sharecropping. The landowner would make the sharecropper do all of the work and then say that the sharecropper owes more money than he actually did. Sharecroppers probably lacked an education which meant that they couldn't try to argue with the landowner so that they could make more money. These limits guided the ideas for social uplift. These ideas were brought along by thought leaders like W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington. One example of this was the Talented 10th, which brought along the idea of someone leading the group of African Americans towards being uplifted. This demonstrated progress for the African Americans and really showcased the idea of social uplift.
After freedom was achieved (the freeing of the slaves in 1863) the fight for equality began. But, equality cannot really be achieved without equity first. Equality is everyone receiving the same, regardless of where they stand or their condition. Equity is fairness, each getting what they need to reach the same level. In this case, the now freed slaves should have been given what they need to be on the same financial and social standing as regular, middle class whites. From there, everyone would be treated equally, the same, to keep the level. But this did not happen. Segregation did. Segregation was the law mandated separation of races in public spaces, such as schools, hospitals, and the ilk. It was intended to be separate but equal, and it started that way, but once it was time for repairs in the black facilities and such, they were given little money for upkeep. Soon the difference between black and white was blaring. Jim Crowe Laws also oppressed the black community.
"Fairness" and "equality" are definitely not the same thing. As stated in previous posts, equality means that everything is the same, and it promotes fairness by giving everyone the same thing. However, this means everyone has to start at the same place. Fairness is the access to equal opportunities no matter your background. It caters to each individuals' needs, thus fairness is needed in order to have equality. The picture above is a good example of both. In equality, the people in the picture are given boxes of the same height, despite the fact that they were of different heights themselves. In the "equity" (or fairness) side, the boxes were given to those who needed it, making an equal opportunity available. Policies and practices that limit social equity/oppress the Black community was disenfranchisement. For example, Mississippi ratified a new constitution in 1890 that disenfranchised black voters by requiring a literacy test, which contained ridiculous questions that are not answerable, and also requiring a payment of poll tax to be eligible to vote. Other southern sates imposed complicated residential requirements for registering, and they imposed the Grandfather Clause to deny their right as well. I agree with Gianna, sharecropping was another method used to oppress Blacks. The sharecropper is provided with land /seed by the landowner, and in turn, the landowner will be given half of the sharecropper's crop. The sharecropper will buy food and clothing from the landowner's store on credit, and continues to work the land. After giving the landowner the crops to sell, the sharecropper will get half of the earnings. However, the landowner will say that the sharecropper owes more than he has earned. To pay the debt, the sharecropper must give a greater share of next year's crop. This ties the sharecropper to one plantation and he makes little money. Since most of the sharecroppers are uneducated, they are taken advantage of and cannot defend themselves. Ideas that guided social uplift were supported by the "thought leaders" we talked about in class, such as Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington. For example, Du Bois mentions the idea of the Talented Tenth. This idea stated that "exceptional men" of any race were going to save it, and uplift it. These selected men were the most educated of the Black population and would forward the cause for the rest of the people. These men will become the leaders who will advocate for development and improvement for their race.
I truly believe that fairness and equality are not the same thing. They both have different meanings. Fairness is when everyone is able to have the same goals, no matter what. Equality is when everything is alike. Like Gianna said, Equality is when everyone has to start out the same. I liked the picture that Mr.Jobs showed to the class. The image contained three indivudals watching a baseball game. The problem was that there was a medium sized gate in-between them. The three individuals started from tall to short. The short one needed the most boxes, rather than them all having one. That is fairness. Equality would be when all three of the boys had boxes. The shortest person still could not see the game, while the rest had a better view. Social equity was limited many, many ways. One certain way would be sharecropping. The sharecropper does all the work and gives the landowner crops to sell, in exchange for land. They also are able to buy food, clothes, and other things with the landowner's money. The landowner then states that the sharecropper owes more money than that of what he made, which makes the sharecropper end up working more. They end up continuing to work on the same plantation and end up with little money. This does not show fairness at all. Disenfranchisement was another way that limited social equity. I find this way very interesting. After the 15th amendment passed, which stated "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." (Found in the Bill Of Rights) Some states still did not allow colored men to vote. There were tests, like literacy ones which asked random questions. If someone got at least one wrong, they failed and would not be able to vote. Meanwhile most colored people were uneducated at the time, which made this completely not fair. There were also rules that stated a payment of poll tax to be completed to vote. That is also not equity. As you can see there were many things that limited social equity in the Post Reconstruction Era. Many did not show fairness at all.
As Elizabeth and Gianna said, "fairness"and "equality" are not the same thing. If ten people were handed a shoe (which is equality because everyone is getting the same thing) it would still not be fair because some people might of gotten a left shoe when they needed a right shoe, and so on. Sometimes what is equal is not always fair due to the fact that different people need different things for different situations. Policies and practices in the Post Reconstruction Era that limited social equity or oppressed the Black community included sharecropping. Sharecropping was a system of agriculture where a landowner allowed a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops grown on that land. This limited equity because nothing was fair about how the landowners would take advantage of their tanants by owing them more than they really owe. This also oppressed the Black community because they were usually uneducated and could not argue with their landowner, even if their landowner was doing them wrong. This resulted in the Black community being stuck on their plantation with no other place to go, and not making much money either. As Matthew said, these limits guided the ideas for social uplift.
The concepts of "fairness" and "equality" are often muddled together as the same thing in our everyday language, but they are in fact very different. To promote "equality" is to ensure everyone receives exactly the same thing. It would be the perfect ideal to strive for, if we all started out the same. To promote "fairness" is to provide special support to those that need it, in order for everyone to achieve equity. Differences that make it harder for some people to do the same things as others are catered to, and supported so those that have it do not fall behind the others that don't. Segregation and Jim Crow Laws greatly limited social equity and oppressed the members of the Black community. It also is a good example that shows the difference between "fairness" and "equality". Their doctrine is "separate but equal", and, in a way, it is true. Both blacks and whites had their own facilities, such as restaurants, schools, and even water fountains, and, though it was separate, they were "equal" because they both had the same things. However, the qualities of the "colored facilities" were degradingly awful compared to the "white facilities"; education was poor, and facilities and buildings were often dilapidated and in shambles. After centuries of being enslaved, the blacks were still oppressed and treated with unfairness (inequity) even after being given the same thing (equality), and that shows just how different the concepts of "fairness" and "equality" really are. Black thought leaders that were talked about in class and read about in the textbook, leaders such as Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Alexander Crummel, brought about social uplift. Though Du Bois and Washington had conflicting ideas on how to bring about social uplift, nevertheless they helped guided ideas for social uplift in the community through their actions.
“Fairness” and “equality” are often mistaken for having the same meaning. However, these words do not mean the same thing because each word has its own ramification. Although both words seem same, there is a fine line between being fair verses being equal. In class, Mr. Jobs explained: “…our differences and/or history can create barriers to participation so we must ensure equity before we can enjoy equality.” To be equal is to be the same. Equality promotes fairness and justice by giving everyone the same thing. However, this can only work if everyone starts at the same place. Some people have disadvantages while others have advantages. When referring to equality, there is no support because there are no advantages. In order to be equal, everyone is put on the same plane. Fairness is making sure all people get access to the same opportunities. Fairness can also be described as “equity.” To thoroughly understand the difference between these two words, think about fairness and equality in a school setting. A teacher can offer fairness by doing their best to give each student what he or she needed in order to be successful. What one individual needs as a student and what someone else needs may be very different. Just because one is trying to be fair does not necessarily mean it will come across as being equal.
As many other people mentioned, sharecropping was a practice that limited social equity during the Post Reconstruction Era. Sharecropping, also known as “Slavery by Another Name,” was a very common cycle during this particular era. The sharecropper is provided with materials and in exchange the landowner will receive half of the sharecropper’s crops. The sharecropper then buys from the landowner’s store while continuing to do all of the work. After giving the crops for selling, the sharecropper will earn half of his earnings. In return, the landowner claims that the sharecropper owes more than he has earned. The sharecropper is then responsible for paying the deb which means giving a greater share of crop the following year. Lack of education allows the landowner to cheat the sharecropper. The sharecropper does not know better and is not able to argue with the landowner. The sharecropping cycle ties the sharecropper to one plantation because he or she has no choice by to work until their debt is paid.
W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were two men who brought about social uplift. Thought leader Du Bois, brought about the idea of the “talented tenth.” This explained that the exceptional men of any race would save and uplift it. Du Bois believed that the best educated 10% of the Black population would forward the cause for the remaining people.
"Fairness" and "equality" are different because being fair means you accommodate someone's specific needs, such as giving a blind man a cane or a lame man a walker. However, equality is giving everyone the same treatment regardless of who they are. This can be a problem because in focusing on equality, it can be easy to forget the differences that keep people from having the same opportunities as others. If equity is properly executed then equality can be achieved as well. Some policies and practices that limited social equity and/or introduced oppression to black communities include: the process of sharecropping, (because it is the process of making a man entitled to a landowner for goods that he may have paid off years ago) the Jim Crow laws (these laws not only kept blacks from getting equity but also treated them as if they were inferior) and disenfranchisement (such as making the test that allowed people to vote extremely difficult for those with little schooling, many of whom were black). As believed by many influential black leaders who arose after Reconstruction, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, social uplift was achieved by the "talented tenth" of any society who used their opportunities and resources to raise up members of the other 90% of society. However, there were fierce opponents of Du Bois, such as Booker T. Washington, who believed that black people's willingness to show their worth through diligence in areas of work that kept the world spinning (like agriculture) brought about social uplift.
fairness means the same amount, however equity means getting different amounts but to get to the same goal. Fairness is not the same as equity because fairness may seem the same, but people don't always receive the same goal as others.
There were events that took place that prevented from African Americans from receiving equity. During the post recreational era, the Jim Crow laws were established all from the act of one man. These Jim Crow laws prevented equity and caused the entire black community to be known as an inferior. They were pushed back from the white community and created segregation along with separate accessories. This began forming the statement "separate but unequal"
Influential and intelligent men became leaders and famous philosophers such as W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. These two men had different ideas but wished to achieve a similar goal. Du Bois thought in order for a society to strive, the "talented tenth" must raise the 90% so that everyone is equal (he was inspired by the concept of communism). Booker T. had a different philosophy in mind, his belief was to not start from the top and lift others, but to begin to learn from the bottom and work your way up to success. These two brought social uplift and hope to both educated and uneducated folks which helped them hope for a new era to arrive.
“Fairness”, also known as equity, is not the same as “equality”. Equity is about fairness and making sure people get access to the same opportunities. But equality is about sameness and it promotes justice by giving the same thing. (Jobs Lecture, Post-Reconstruction: A Nadir in Race Relations 1890-1920) When I think of equity and equality, I think of that image with the 3 people trying to see the event that was taking place. The equity and equality sides show the difference between the two majorly.
In the Post Reconstruction Era the science of Eugenics limited social equity and oppressed the Black community (but not just the black community). Eugenics was the study that certain negative characteristics were inherited and the goal was to improve the human population by prevented these characteristics from being passed on. Even though the science wasn’t talked about until years after it happened doesn’t mean there isn’t an effect on people. This limited the Black community (and other people in the lower class or minority groups) because doctors took away some people’s right to reproduce freely by sterilizing patients against their will or while the patients were unaware of what was going on.
Thought leaders W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington guided ideas for social uplift. Dubois believed in the idea of the Talented 10th and wanted to help the black people advance in equality. Washington believed in the idea of the Bottom Down and accepted blacks as being inferior. Even though these two ideas were different they both guided the Black community in a social uplift.
I do not believe that "equality" and "fairness" are the same thing. Equality means the state or quality of being equal. Fairness means to be free from bias and injustice. I agree with Winter when she said that, "being fair means you accommodate someone's specific needs". We all have different perspectives and opinions on what fair is. Equal means same and I do not believe there is more than one day to define that. To be fair, means to provide opportunities to others without any bias and despite their background. In Post-Reconstruction, sharecropping limited social equity and oppressed the Black community. Like Cayley said, "The sharecropping cycle ties the sharecropper to one plantation because he or she has no choice by to work until their debt is paid.". Sharecroppers had to suffer because they could not fight with landowners and they were taken advantage of them, which made it hard on them.
"Fairness" and "equality" are not the same just as knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Fairness takes into account disadvantages and advantages in an attempt to get rid of them and create a even ground for all. It allows everyone to have the same experience and to bring people to an equal level to each other. Equality however, is giving the same thing to everyone. The thing is, not everyone will be equal as one may have not had the same disadvantages or advantages as another. For example, you can give three kids each an apple, but one of them already had one. This means he would have more apples than the others with this idea of equality. In order to get true equality, everyone has to start from the same ground, which means that equity, or fairness, must first exist before true equality (where everyone has the same) can exist. During the post-reconstruction era, many policies and practices during the time prevent social equity and therefore also preventing equality. "Jim Crow" laws were sets of laws that made racial segregation legal and promoted inequity and inequality, despite the fact that blacks were supposed to be "separate but equal". Included in the Jim Crow laws were laws that disenfranchised many blacks due to failure to meet the requirements, such as passing an incredibly tough literacy exam or the grandfather clause. This way, it looked as though they were equal, but they were actually not as it was near impossible for blacks to vote with these laws and stipulations. Another thing that prevented social equity was sharecropping, a system of work that essentially kept a worker in debt for years. When there were ideas for social uplift, many of them were lead by famous intellectuals such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Despite them not sharing a common method and not agreeing with each other, they both wanted the same goal, which was for blacks to be accepted by whites and to be equal.
Fairness is not the same as equality. Fairness is giving three people with different heights walking sticks that correlate with their individual heights. Equality would be giving each of them an equal sized stick. The problem with equality is that it does not consider anything other than making sure everything equivalent, while fairness meets the individual needs of people to give them what they need. One thing which limited equity for blacks was sharecropping. Sharecropping forced blacks into a corner. They had to work to survive and one of the few jobs they could get exploited this fact and freed blacks lack of outside experience. Sharecropping took advantage of the lack of educated blacks which was caused by slavery. By doing these things sharecropping acted as a legal type of slavery. One of the main things which guides the ideas for social uplift in this time are black colleges. Black colleges worked to lessen the education gap between blacks and whites. It was understood that schooling was very important to advancing blacks in America. It gave them a foothold in the door.
The terms "equality" and "fairness" do not have the same meanings. Equality is when people are given the same things regardless of their circumstance. Fairness is when an individual's needs are accommodated properly to the point where everyone can be on the same level. True equality can be achieved by using fairness. As mentioned by many others, the practice of sharecropping was one of the most popular methods in which social equity is limited during the Post Reconstruction Era. Since many of the workers were uneducated, they were easily taken advantage of by the landowners. Though the sharecropper does all the work, little to none of what he produces actually gives him a profit. Landowners claim that the sharecropper owes more than what he actually does. Since the sharecropper has no method of proving otherwise, the sharecropper is stuck paying off a large amount of debt that he doesn't truly have in the first place. The placement of Jim Crow laws also limited the possibility of social equity and it oppressed the Black community just as the practice of sharecropping did. These laws suggested the idea that society can function as "separate but equal." These laws made segregation legal and since there were many racial prejudices, each community did not receive the same resources and opportunities (think of the literacy test). Thought leaders such as Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington guided the ideas of the social uplift. These thought leaders advocated for the betterment of their community whether it was through education or through labor. Their influence created organizations that aided the Black community and it also affected some governing powers.
Equality and fairness is not the same thing . The reason why they are not the same because equality is the principle of every being able to have the same things ,but is able for some to have an advantage over others .For example the education of children in this time whites were able to get better tools and educators in their schools ,but in minority schools the get poor educator and old beaten books.So in term of equality and fairness This system is equal ,but not fair. To make it fair all students would have to have the same tools and educators available to them. One of the main problems during this era that oppressed the black community is sharecropping . Like many other said the was used to take advantage of uneducated african american and bring back slave in a new form ,but with very,very ,very little pay.Another is the Jim Crow laws which segregated blacks and white more than ever creating a system that prevented blacks for doing anything basically. Last Ideas of social uplift were shown especially when black collages were created to give blacks a chance to better themselves through the limited amount of good education available to them.
I don't think fairness and equality are not the same thing. Equality is when everyone and everything is treaded or given the exact same as everyone else. Fairness is when people or helped more or given more to be as powerful or the same as other people. A good example of what I am saying is the picture that was shown in class. The one side that showed equality had kids at a stadium who were all given one box to stand on. There it shows everyone was given exactly the same even if all of the boys views of the stadium were not the same. The other side was fairness. the shortest kid was given two boxes so and the middle height kid was given one box. This shows the fairness because some kids were given more than the other so that everyone could see at the same level. In the Post Reconstruction Era social equity was limited because of sharecropping. The sharecroppers didn't have an education so landowners took advantage of them a lot and they couldn't do anything about it. The sharecroppers did all of the work and the landowners would say they owed them money. The Jim Crow laws allowed segregation to be done legally, causing racial acts. Some things that guided the ideas of the social uplift were the creation of black colleges, and people like W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington. No matter what they had to do and what they went through they both had the same idea of trying to make blacks as equal as whites. Also the constant push to end racism.
Fairness and Equality are two completely different concepts. Equality is where everyone has the same, it is a total equal. But fairness is where everybody has what they need according to how much, or of what they need. But somewhere in between these two is what brings them both to be what they are meant to be. Equality brings a problem in that it does not consider anything other than making sure everything equivalent, while fairness meets the individual needs of people to give them what they need. An example of the difference between the two is this. Say you want equality and there is a small boy, a medium boy, and a big boy, and you give them all 1 biscuit thus having equality. The problem would be that 1 biscuit might be enough for the small boy but not the others. Fairness would have each boy recieving enough biscuits to feed them properly. That is a good way to describe the difference. Equity is the the same as fairness. In the post-reconstruction era there were many policies and events that prevented racial equity, and equality. One popular farming technique was sharecropping. Sharecropping was a replacement for having slaves in the fields in a sense. What it did was completely limit the people working under the landowners so that they could barely get by, and would never see the real results of their work. Another policy was the Jim Crowe laws. These laws essentially made the black folks bow down and show white people and uneccesary respect, and it promoted racial segregation. In this time there was a false sense of equity that wasn't real. Even lynch mobs that killed innocent black folk was a part of preventing racial equality. But despite all this there was social uplift movement trying to achieve an equality led by thought leaders like Booker T. Washington.
I do not believe that equality and fairness is the same thing. Fairness is the quality of making judgments that are free from discrimination. Equality is the state of being equal. When people are being fair, it means that people are not being judged or banned from doing certain things because of their background or differences. When people are equal, they are the same. People will withhold the same rights, will have the same opportunities available for them and will be treated as one nation. A society can have equality, but still be unfair. For example, every citizen has the right to apply for any job they are interested in, in the U.S, which is equality, but if the manager of that business declines your application due to your racial or ethnic background, that is being unfair. In Post-Reconstruction, social equity was limited by sharecropping and resulted in harsh treatment towards the black community. Sharecroppers suffered because the landowners took advantage of them and the sharecroppers were unable to fight against them. This made the sharecroppers have a hard time making a living.
Fairness and Equality are definetly not the same thing. Equality means that everyone starts from the same place but this does not mean that everyone will end up at the same level.Fairness means that everyone does not start at the same level but everyone works to be at the same level and have adjustments made to get to the same level.In our society some people are blacked from getting to this equal level because of backgrounds races and many other barriers.The picture mr jobs showed us depicted a really good example of this. It showed visually exactly how this works. I believe the the root of both equality and fairness all centers around money. The ultimate goal of everyone is to be at the top with the most money but this can not happen with equality but it can happen with fairness.The Post Reconstruction era limited social equity. The sharecropper would do all the work but not receive as much much money as the landowner. This is a great example of of fairness vs equality. The landowner and the sharecropper could have started from the same place but developers and had different successions which is fairness. In conclusion quality and fairness are not the same thing because equality puts everyone at different levels but fairness adjusts everyone to obtain the same level.
Fairness is not the same as equality. Equality means that everyone must have the same advantages and privileges. If everyone has the same foot stool to see a football game than equality is shown. However, it isn't fair for a short person if they still can't see the game and a tall person sees even clearer than just being on their feet. It becomes fair when a tall person, who can see the game without a footstool, gives the stool to a short person who can't see. That becomes fair for the short person because they can see just as much as someone whose taller without the stool. It's not equal because the tall person doesn't have a stool. Sharecropping was a practice that limited social equity during the Post Reconstruction Era. Sharecropping was another name for slavery. The sharecropper is provided a shack by a landowner. The sharecropper will work in the fields are prepare the crops to be sold. Half of the profit will go to the landowner and half to the sharecropper. Sharecroppers were mostly blacks however there were whites as well. Sharecroppers made smaller income than half sometimes due to lack of education. The landowner would lie about the amount of profit made from the crops therefore the landowner would benefit by taking more than half. Disenfranchisement is also a practice that limited social equity and oppressed blacks because the right to vote was NOT enforced. Most blacks couldn't vote because of the poll taxes. There were literacy tests that limited the amount of people who were uneducated because it was hard to pass and made to benefit whites. Advocate such as W.E.B. Dubois believed in a rule called the talented 10th. 10% of the people at the top are education and the rest are below them. The bottom part of the pyramid would benefit and grow from the people at the top, unifying the race of colored people.
The ideas of "fairness" and "equality" are certainly not the same thing. In class we talked about how equality is sameness and fairness is equity.The picture above explains this concept very well. In class we also did an activity where ten volunteers takes off one of there shoes and each of the ten took a different shoe. There was equality because everyone got a shoe. There wasnt fairness because people have different sized feet and the shoe they chosen might not have been for the leg that needed a shoe. So as you can see even though everyone was equal, there wasnt fairness which establishes a difference. A practice that limited social equity in the Post Reconstruction Era was sharecropping.Essentially landowners provide sharecroppers land in trade for half the crops they produce. The sharecropper does every single bit of the labor and provides the landowner crops to put up for sale. The land owners often trick the sharecroppers into saying they owe them money. This makes the sharecroppers work over time to repay the landowner back. The sharecroppers were most probable to be uneducated and could not disagree with the landowner, consequential in them being attached to one plantation and making a small amount of cash. The landowners using the lacking of education of sharecroppers causes the sharecroppers to be taken advantage of. How is this fair? A Policy that limits social equity/oppresses the Black community was disenfranchisement. For instance, the Jim Crow laws were laws that disenfranchised lots of blacks because of malfunction to gather the necessities, like doing well on an extremely hard reading and writing assessment. This system made it seem as though they were equal, but they were in reality not as it was close to impractical for blacks to take part in an election with these laws and conditions. A promoter named W.E.B. Dubois felt strongly in a rule entitled the talented 10th. 10% of the people at the top are education and the remaining is underneath them. The bottom part of the pyramid would advantage and develop from the people at the top, combining the race of black people
In my opinion, “equality” and “equity” have two totally different meanings. Equality promotes justice by giving everyone the same thing. In the picture above, the artist depicts equality by giving everyone one stool. Everyone was equal because they were given the same amount of items, but it was not “fair” because some were not able to see the game due to their height. In contrast, equity is more about fairness. Everyone is given an equal opportunity. As shown in the picture above, everyone is able to see the game. The short people who were not able to see, were given stools so that they everyone was given a fair opportunity to watch the game. I agree with Elia when she said “What is equal is not always fair.” People may be given the same opportunities, but quality, disabilities, and physical appearances become a huge limiting factor. Furthermore, sharecropping was a practice that limited social equity during the Post Reconstruction Era. Sharecropping is simply when a sharecropper is provided with half of the landowners property, but in return the sharecropper gives the landowner half of their crops. The landowner sells the materials, and the sharecropper receives a portion of the earnings. However, the sharecropper has to pay for the debt. The sharecropped is forced to work until their debt is paid off. Due to lack of education, landowners are able to get one over on the sharecroppers. Additionally, Eugenics was another practice that limited social equity during the Post Reconstruction Era. In a nutshell, Eugenics was the attempt to create a perfect society. If doctors saw a characteristic in someone that would harm society, they prevented that person from having babies. This limited the black community because doctors limited people’s rights to have babies freely.
Before this class, I thought fairness and equality were the same thing, but my mind has changed. Equality only works, as Elizabeth stated, when everyone starts at the same place. However, we all know this is not the case in real life. Equality is giving everyone the same treatment. That, in theory, sounds great, but equal treatment can become unfair. With the whole "separate but equal" issue, I used to think it was a stupid statement because you cannot be separate and equal. But Aline brought up a good point: the blacks WERE given some equal treatment; they were given schools and restaurants as the whites were. But that did not make it fair. Fairness is when each person is given what they are needed to be comfortable in their situation. For example: it would be fair to give a single mother of two more money than a woman living alone because the mother has to support her children as well. This isn't equal, but fair. In the Post-Reconstruction Era, sharecropping and Jim Crow laws were made to limit the equity of blacks. As stated by the others, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington gave ideas for social uplift, though Dubois and Washington's ideas often conflicted.
"Fairness" and "equality" are not the same thing. Equality means everything is the same. It promotes fairness by giving people the same things, but this means everyone has to start out the same. Fairness is when people are given access to the same opportunities no matter where they came from.these words do not mean the same thing because each word has its own ramification. Although both words seem same, there is a fine line between being fair verses being equal. In class, Mr. Jobs explained: “…our differences and/or history can create barriers to participation so we must ensure equity before we can enjoy equality.” To be equal is to be the same. Equality promotes fairness and justice by giving everyone the same thing. Policies and practices in the Post Reconstruction Era that limited social equity or oppressed the Black community included sharecropping. Sharecropping was a system of agriculture where a landowner allowed a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops grown on that land. This limited equity because nothing was fair about how the landowners would take advantage of their tanants by owing them more than they really owe. This also oppressed the Black community because they were usually uneducated and could not argue with their landowner, even if their landowner was doing them wrong. This resulted in the Black community being stuck on their plantation with no other place to go, and not making much money either. One of the main things which guides the ideas for social uplift in this time are black colleges. Black colleges worked to lessen the education gap between blacks and whites. It was understood that schooling was very important to advancing blacks in America. It gave them a foothold in the door.The landowner would lie about the amount of profit made from the crops therefore the landowner would benefit by taking more than half. Disenfranchisement is also a practice that limited social equity and oppressed blacks because the right to vote was NOT enforced. Most blacks couldn't vote because of the poll taxes. There were literacy tests that limited the amount of people who were uneducated because it was hard to pass and made to benefit whites. Advocate such as W.E.B. Dubois believed in a rule called the talented 10th. 10% of the people at the top are education and the rest are below them. The bottom part of the pyramid would benefit and grow from the people at the top, unifying the race of colored people.
Fairness and equality are not the same thing, and, though they can go hand in hand, can often times unbalance each other when a situation arises involving subjects such as race. To be equal means to have all things the same, which can begin to inspire fairness in some scenarios; whereas, to be fair means to to offer the same opportunities and experiences to everyone. Equality focuses to make sure everyone gets the same thing, but fairness focuses to assure that everyone has what they need. As an example to clearly explain both terms, like the height differences in the image we viewed during class, if three girls of different sizes are looking for a prom dress and each is offered a size 5 dress, that is equality. It isn't fair though because, if each girl is a different size, they can't all get the dress they want because it doesn't fit properly. In the Post Reconstruction Era, there were multiple policies and practices that limited social equity, oppressing the Black community. One such policy was segregation. As Aline said, it shows the difference between equity and equality, specifically through their "separate but equal" doctrine. They purposefully separated the Blacks and Whites, leaving Blacks and Whites having all of the same opportunities in varying degrees of stability and quality. Both groups had schools for education, restaurants to eat in, and other facilities, but they did not share them, and the facilities of the Blacks were more often than not in relative shambles. The Whites' facilities were much more closely maintained, just as the Blacks received next to nothing. Even after centuries of slavery finally coming to an end, the oppression of the Blacks was still extremely evident. It may have been "equal," but it was certainly not "fair." Social uplift can be guided by many factors. In Black communities, it was most often guided by the ideas of influencial Black leaders and ideas that came about in the Post Reconstruction Era. Voices like that of W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington. They had somewhat conflicting ideas, but they both worked towards, in the end, social uplift. DuBois studied the "talented tenth," which was the idea that the responsibility of lifting the community fell to ten percent of the population were meant to lift - or provide resources to - the other ninety percent of the population. Booker T. Washington had a different outlook on the predicament of Blacks. Washington believed in the "Bottom Down" theory; in it, Blacks were simply meant to start at the bottom and make them up through working rather diligently to make their way up through society, lifting the community.
I strongly disagree with the statement- "equality" and "fairness" are the same thing. Equality is the state or quality of being equal. Fairness is without bias and injustice. I agree with many others that said, "being fair means you accommodate someone's specific needs". All humans have different meanings on everything so we all have differnt opinions and ways of thinking what fair really is. Equal means same. Being fair, means to give opportunities to others without any bias or injustice and no mstter what. While learning about Post-Reconstruction, sharecropping limited social equity and oppressed the Black community.Sharecroppers had to suffer because they could not fight with landowners and they were taken advantage of them, which made it hard on them almost like slavery.
Overall, Fairness and is not the same as equality. Just as the image showed with the baseball scenario. Equality basically means everything is the same, all conditions, treatments and beneficial things are all the same for everyone. There are no higher levels in equality. As Gianna said, Fairness is when people are given a chance/access to the same opportunities and choices. Some policies and practices that limit social equity or oppress the Black community were share cropping. This policy was truly ridiculous because the landowner asks the services of the black person and the landowner basically tricks the blacks into more debt and therefore making the blacks work for them more longer than usual. Ideas that guided social uplift came from speakers such as W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington. For example the idea that DuBois came up with was called the Talented 10th. This talented 10th percent of blacks would improve society and uplift the community around them.
In class we talked about how fairness is equity. Also we discussed the differences and similarities. between equality and equity so I personally do not believe that “fairness” and “equality” are the same thing. Fairness means to be free from bias and injustice. Fairness is what is fair for each individual. While reading some of these other posts I came across Winter’s and I saw that she said that “being fair means you accommodate someone’s specific needs”. I agree with her statement. Everyone; each individual has a different perspective on what is fair. To provide or give special opportunities for certain people without bias and forgetting about their past is to be fair. Equality means the state of being equal. Being equal means everyone has or is the same. After freedom was achieved in 1863 everyone began to fight for equality. Freed slaves had to fight for their right to be equal. Freed slaves should have been given what they needed to survive like financial wise but they weren’t. They had to fight for where they are now. Everyone should be treated equal. Instead of everyone being ruled equal segregation happened. Segregation was a law that mandated separation of races in public places such as hospitals and schools. Segregation was intended to be separate but equal to everyone and it started out that way..but it didn’t follow up that way. Another big thing that oppressed the black community was Jim Crowe’s laws. Once it was time for repairs and changes in black facilities and work they were given very little and barely any money to survive and to keep up and support their families. This was totally unfair.
Fairness is not the same as equality. Equality ensures everyone has the same opportunities however, Fairness entails getting what you believe to be a reasonably desirable result. Equality can be tangibly measured while fairness is in the eye of the beholder. I strongly agree with Matthew Anderson, we can live in a world where every one is treated equality, but that doesn't mean we would live in a world where everyone is treated fairly and treated without discrimination. With this said, just because we are equal we still will have difference with fairness because everyone will be treated differently based on who they are. Sharecropping was a system of agriculture where a landowner allowed a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops grown on that land. This limited equity because nothing was fair about how the landowners would take advantage of their tanants by owing them more money that what was really needed. This also shows how every body was equal but had different amounts of fairness. These two great philosophers W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington had many different beliefs but wished to achieve a similar goal. Du Bois thought in order for a society to strive, the "talented tenth" must raise the 90% so that everyone is equal. On the other hand, Booker T. Washington's belief was to begin from the bottom and work your way up to success.
"Equality" and "Fairness" are not the same thing. They both go hand hand but are completely different. Having equality is having the same thing. From beginning to end everything is the same. fairness is when everybody gets the right to see things the same way by adjusting the circumstances at that time. A great example of the two is the picture shown in class and three people and one part was equality and another was fairness. In order for them all to see the same one person was smaller then thee older so they needed a boulder or two and the taller person didn't. Equality is when everyone gets one boulder but for the small person it wasn't enough. I think personally that sharecropping was a practice that limited social equity. Sharecropping is when the land owners give the sharecroppers some land but in trade for a a certain amount of crops they grow usually half. The landowner can also potentially do other things with the land owners money. As many people have stated, the things that limited African American's social and political rights was social uplift.
"Equality" and "fairness" are not the same thing. Equality ensure everyone has the same opportunities, Fairness entails getting what you believe to be a reasonably desirable result. Everyone was equal because they were given the same amount of items, but it was not able to see the game due the their height. The lands owners often trick the sharecroppers int saying they owe them money. the landowner can also potentially do other things with land owner money. Advocate such as W.E.B. Dubois believed in a rule called the talented 10th. Even lynch mobs that killed innocent black folk was a part of preventing racial equality.
I do not believe fairness and equality is even close to being the same thing, along with many others. The definition of equality is the state or quality of being equal, and the definition of fairness is something without bias and injustice. Policies and or practices in the Post Reconstruction Era that limited social equity or oppressed the Black community, included sharecropping. Sharecropping was the system of agriculture where one landowner allowed one tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops he was growing on that land. Most of the time, sharecroppers lacked an education, which meant they basically had close to no ways to argue against the landowner for more money. These limits guided the ideas for a social uplift, which were brought on by leader(s) W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington. A good example for this happening was the talented 10th in which they thought the idea of bringing somebody up to lead the group of African Americans. Du Bois believed that the best-educated 10% of the Black population would forward the cause for the remaining people. These two men brought social uplift and hope to both educated and uneducated folks, who helped them hope for a new era and future to arrive.
I don't believe that "equality" and "fairness" are the same thing. Equality means the state or quality of being equal. Fairness means to be free from bias. We all have different perspectives and opinions on what fair is and what isn't fair. Equal means to same but to other people it means something different other than the same. To be fair, means to provide opportunities to others without any bias and no matter what their background. In Post-Reconstruction, sharecropping limited social equity and oppressed the Black community. Sharecroppers had to suffer because they could not fight with landowners and they were taken advantage of them, which made it hard on them. The things that limited African Americans social and political rights was known as a social uplift.
I don’t think fairness and equality is the same thing. Just like what Gianna said, I also think that equality means everything is equal. Everybody has the same thing. But fairness means that everybody got the same opportunities. Just like the picture that you showed us in class, Everybody has one box to support them. It is equal. But it isn’t fair because the shortest guy still need more boxes. I think to be fair, you have to give up equalities so that everybody have the same opportunities. You need fairness so it can be equal. Policies and or practices in the Post Reconstruction Era that limited social equity or oppressed the Black community is sharecropping. Sharecropping was a system where a landowner allowed a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops grown on that land.The sharecropper is provided with materials and in exchange the landowner will receive half of the sharecropper’s crops. Some sharecroppers lack education so its easy for the landowner to fool them. This limited equity because it is not fair how the landowners take advantage of the sharecroppers by making them pay more money. W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington are two philosopher that want to achieve similar goal. They want to promote social uplift. W.E.B Dubois believed in the idea of the Talented 10th.and wanted to help the black people advance in equality. Washington believed in the idea where you must start from the bottom to achieve the top. They wanted the same goal, which is to get everybody fair and equal.
Fairness and equality are two totally different things. Fairness is the act of people getting access to the same opportunities;whereas, equality means that everyone is being treated the same. Everyone has the same rights and obligations. Ideas that guided social uplift came from speakers such as W.E.B Dubious and Booker T. Washington. The idea that Dubious came up with was called the Talented 10th. This talented 10th percent of blacks would improve society and uplift the community around them.The bottom part of the pyramid would advantage and develop from the people at the top, combining the race of black people. But Aline was right when saying that the blacks WERE given some equal treatment; they were given schools and restaurants as the whites were. But just because they were given all this they still weren't looked at as equal.
Fairness is definitely not the same thing as equality. Equality means equal status rights and opportunities. Fairness means you are free from any bias activity or behavior and you see things from an objective point of views. If a certain individual is treated with equality, they are treated the same as other individuals, being treated fairly means you are given the same opportunities everyone else is given. Segregation and Jim Crow Laws greatly limited social equity. These laws only applied to blacks and prevented them from receiving equality. Social equality also was not reached because of sharecropping. Sharecropping is when a landowner will allow a tenant to use their land, in exchange for an exchange of the props grown. Some things that paved the way for social uplift are black colleges (an example would be Great Debaters). A promoter named W.E.B. Dubois felt strongly in a rule entitled the talented 10th. 10% of the people at the top are education and the remaining is beneath hem. The bottom part of the pyramid would give those an advantage and develop from the people at the top, combining the race of black people
As several others mentioned, I agree that fairness and equality are two completely opposite things. Fairness is the act of being free from bias activity or behavior. As equity is the state of having equal rights. Each individual has their own perspective on things. In the Post Reconstruction Era, sharecroppers had to suffer because they could not fight with the landowners. Several limits guided the idea for social uplift. W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were two men who brought about social uplift. W.E.B Du Bois brought about the idea of the "talented tenth". This idea explained that the exceptional men of any race would save and uplift it. Du Bois believed that the better educationed ten percent of the black population would continue the cause for the remaining people.
I truly believe that fairness and equality are not the same thing. They both have different meanings. Fairness is when everyone is able to have the same goals, no matter what. Equality is when everything is alike. Fairness caters to peoples' needs, and though it may not seem equal, fairness is needed to get to equality. As many other people mentioned, sharecropping was a practice that limited social equity during the Post Reconstruction Era. Sharecropping, also known as “Slavery by Another Name,” was a very common cycle during this particular era. The sharecropper is provided with materials and in exchange the landowner will receive half of the sharecropper’s crops. The sharecropper then buys from the landowner’s store while continuing to do all of the work. After giving the crops for selling, the sharecropper will earn half of his earnings. These limits guided the ideas for social uplift. These ideas were brought along by thought leaders like W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington. One example of this was the Talented 10th, which brought along the idea of someone leading the group of African Americans towards being uplifted.This showed the progress of African Americans and the idea of social uplift.
"Equality and "Fairness" are not the same. equality means that everything is equal. Everything is the same. For example, everybody gets the same amount of juice. That's being equal towards everyone. Fairness is when people are given the same opportunities no matter where they came from. For example, if a child could not see a game, but an adult could, then the child would not have the same view as the adult. But, if the child had something to stand on that will help the child to see the game, then both the adult and child have the game. I believe in order to succeed equality, you first have to succeed fairness.
One of the policies that limited social equity was sharecropping. Sharecroppers didn't have the proper education like a landowner would. The landowners would use the education to the advantage, because the sharecroppers didn't and make them work. The landowners would say that the sharecropper owes more money.
Ideas that guided social uplift were supported by the " thought leaders", such as Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Ida B. Wells. Du Bois mentions the Talented Tenth. The idea stated that any race "exceptional men" of any race were to save and uplift it. These three leaders are the ones that developed and improved African American race.
Fairness and equality are often characterized in the same group by saying both get the same privileges, but the truth of the matter is that they are more different than one could imagine. Equality is giving each individual the same materialistic opportunity. Fairness is giving everyone the support they’ll need in order to actually be equal. In the Reconstruction Era segregation laws, in particular Jim Crow limited the social equity of the black community of in numerous ways. Jim Crow law was one of the most enacted laws of segregation during the 1870s. List of Jim Crow Laws: -Never assert or even intimate that a white person is lying. -Never impute dishonorable intentions to a white person. -Never suggest that a white person is from an inferior class. -Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior knowledge or intelligence. -Never curse a white person. -Never laugh derisively at a white person. -Never comment upon the appearance of a white female. A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it implied being socially equal. Obviously, a black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a white woman, because he risked being accused of rape. -Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together. If they did eat together, whites were to be served first, and some sort of partition was to be placed between them. Under no circumstance was a black male to offer to light the cigarette of a white female -- that gesture implied intimacy. -Blacks were not allowed to show affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended whites. -Jim Crow etiquette prescribed that blacks were introduced to whites, never whites to blacks. For example: "Mr. Peters (the white person), this is Charlie (the black person), that I spoke to you about." -Whites did not use courtesy titles of respect when referring to blacks, for example, Mr., Mrs., Miss., Sir, or Ma'am. Instead, blacks were called by their first names. Blacks had to use courtesy titles when referring to whites, and were not allowed to call them by their first names. If a black person rode in a car driven by a white person, the black person sat in the back seat, or the back of a truck. -White motorists had the right-of-way at all intersections.“Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.” These type of unnecessary laws oppressed the black community by making them feel inferior and much more likely to feel like an Alien for they couldn’t eat ,look ,play, to a white person, and if they were to speak to a white person, they were to address them a certain way. It also oppresses the black community because this is not equity, its equality because during this Era they considered these rules as something black and whites were equal to but just separate. In addition, Jim Crow laws oppressed the back community but making them less to than white people instead of giving them the same support white people were given. However, social uplift began, due to black activist leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois, NAACP, Black Panthers, Booker T. Washington. Dr. King uplifted the social by speaking out and protesting in non-violent movements, his words moved the nation and helped both white and black people see what kind of society we lived in. Malcolm X however was a courageous activist complete opposite of Dr. King, but he was still noticed creating change for the black community. W.E.B Du Bois was a thought leader he and Booker T. Washington, encouraged African Americans to fix their actions and dignity. Although both of these thought leaders had conflicts with what they wanted to do for the black community, they still encouraged education of African Americans. These leaders helped uplift this broken society in to one.
In my opinion fairness and equality are similar, but not exactly the same. The word “equality” means same and the word “fair” usually refers to being unbiased. I believe that being fair is to fit someone’s specific needs. Like when we did the shoe activity during class. In the end everyone had two shoes, so they were all equal, however it wasn’t fair because some people had one shoe that didn’t fit or that they didn’t like. That activity really helped me to wrap my head around the differences. In Post- Reconstruction the sharecropping limited the social equality and it also oppressed the African American community. I agree with Cayley when she said, "The sharecropping cycle ties the sharecropper to one plantation because he or she has no choice by to work until their debt is paid." It was very difficult for the sharecroppers because they pretty much were taken advantage of. They couldn’t really fight with the landowners because that would cause problems, and they most likely wouldn’t win.
Fairness in the Post Reconstruction South is not the same as Equality to me. That’s because the black people of the South had a slew of problems, starting from false use of arrest, lynchings and continuing with no support for defense to a big lack of civil rights. Black people had no equity in the court system. It’s like in the Scottsboro Boys trial. The Scottsboro Boys got the worst lawyers for the defense. It’s equal but is that fair? The Scottsboro Boys was a case that took and ended the lives of nine innocent people. This happened all the time in the Post Reconstruction South. One of the Scottsboro Boys was blind because he couldn’t afford glasses. The Scottsboro Boys had no chance. No white person could understand this because since they have a different skin color it doesn’t upset them as much. If you were black, then your heart would be shattered if you had these obstacles. The Scottsboro Boys got equal treatment in court but no equity. If we look back at our American past we would find that one of our biggest tragedies is the way black people were treated in the Post Reconstruction. Think about the school system in the South Back then. There were hardly any high schools in the Deep South. There were some in the Upper South. A lot of black schools were private. There weren’t even that many elementary schools. A lot of the schools were in shacks. The teachers weren’t trained. Black schools were generally run independently by black people and had absolutely no support from either party. Black people had no chance of learning in them because they had no support. Sharecropping was basically a way for Southerners to trick and treat freedmen. What happens is that the freedmen couldn’t afford all their debt they had to give the plantation owner a certain proportion of their crop. They couldn’t pay what the slave masters ordered from them. Sharecropping helped white Southerners get back in business and their plan work. To make sure that they would never lose that again they invented the KKK and Jim Crow laws. The KKK terrorized people out of their right to vote. This reminds me of the book Uncle Tom’s Children, which I read when a black teenager gets tarred and feathered for real. The ideas that guided social uplift were the circumstances that black people were in that seemed to cause a huge negative reaction with white people. It was in the late 1890s and early 20th century that two individuals would have two solutions that would change the course of history for blacks. Booker T. Washington’s statement was ”Start from the bottom and work so you can make it on the white economic ladder so that you can make it into the white world.” W.E.B. Du Bois said that no matter where you are as long as the KKK and the Jim Crow South are alive no black person will make it out even if they do start from the bottom.
"Fairness" & "Equality" are used everyday as the same term. I completely disagree with the use of the words. Fairness is when people are all equally happy with what they have. Equality is when everyone receives the same thing. In example the video we watched about the upcoming white society in the collage. In the video the people in the organization complained that they weren't being treated equally. But the fact was that just because the weren't given the equality of other ethnic groups doesn't mean they weren't treated fair;y. As regular white citizens they got the race respect the should have gotten without an organization. If the white society became a national society then the other organizations such as The NAACP would not be as fairly treated as the white society.
Fairness and Equality, Two words said to be the same thing but are definitely not the same thing and anyone who says that they are are dead wrong. How they are different are though the meanings for each word because fairness means that everyone gets the same things and is basically blind to color, money and social ranking. An example of fairness is the picture shown to us in class of the three people that were different heights but all saw the game. Even though one had no box, one had 1 box and one had 2 boxes to stand on they all the the game. Equal is different because what it means to be equal is that everyone gets the same things but does not cater to peoples needs like fairness does. An example of equality is the picture shown to us in class of the tree people of different heights all standing on a box of the same size. Even though they all had a box to stand on one saw the game better than the other two and one didn't even see the game because he was small. In order to have equality we first need fairness, even though it doesn't seem fair it caters to people’s needs and that means everyone can truly be equals. Much like how people think that fairness is equality they think that the Post Reconstruction Era was a good time for fairness but we all know it wasn't. The things that happened during that period limited Blacks rights of fairness so much that they were basically “slaves because of debt.” Why I say they were slaves to debt is because they were “free” in the sense that they weren't slaves but they had debts to pay off which was just like slavery. Sharecropping for example was one reason why blacks and even poor whites had to pay off their debts that they either never paid off or paid them off and never enjoyed life. Also Blacks were able to vote thanks to the 15th amendment but were either scared to vote because of the KKK and the White Southern Union or weren't eligible to vote because of test created for voting.
if a similar plague hit Philly i would grab the accentual and i would leave. i would leave in my car with my whole family we would travel off too a different state in america. we would probably go to California. i would go there because it's the state farthest away.
if a similar plague hit Philly i would grab the accentual and i would leave. i would leave in my car with my whole family we would travel off too a different state in america. we would probably go to California. i would go there because it's the state farthest away.
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"Fairness" and "equality" are not the same thing. Equality means everything is the same. It promotes fairness by giving people the same things, but this means everyone has to start out the same. Fairness is when people are given access to the same opportunities no matter where they came from. Differences, which can create barriers for some people, are not discriminated upon. Instead, they are used to promote fairness. Fairness caters to peoples' needs, and though it may not seem equal, fairness is needed to get to equality. A good example of fairness vs. equality was the picture from our class discussion where there are three people shown watching a game, each being a different height. On one side, each person is shown with one box to stand on, which would be considered equality. However, the other picture shows fairness because the boxes are given to the people who need it more.
A practice that limited social equity in the Post Reconstruction Era was sharecropping. Basically landowners give sharecroppers land in exchange for half the crops they grow. The sharecropper does all the work and gives the landowner crops to sell. He also buys clothes and other goods using the landowner's money. In the end, the landowner claims that the sharecropper owes more money than he made, which requires them to work off their debt. The sharecroppers were most likely uneducated and could not argue with the landowner, resulting in them being tied to one plantation and making little money. The sharecroppers are taken advantage of by the landowners, which does not promote fairness (equity). Another practice that limited social equity and oppressed Blacks was disenfranchisement. Even thought the 15th amendment gave all men the right to vote, it was not enforced by some of states. Poll taxes and literacy tests stopped Blacks from voting. These tests could ask anything and were made hard to pass in an attempt to make elections benefit a certain group.
The things that limited African American's social and political rights brought about social uplift. Ideas for social uplift were guided by the thought leaders we discussed in class, such as W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington. One idea was the talented 10th Dubois talked about. The idea was that the exceptional men of any race would uplift the rest of it. In the case of Blacks, Dubois thought the best educated 10% of the Black population would advance the cause of the entire population. In conclusion, the idea that the "talented tenth" would promote progress for their race guided ideas for social uplift.
Much like Gianna said, I don't think that "fairness" and "equality" are the same thing. If a group of people are equal, this means that they are treated the same. If a group of people are treated fairly, this mean that everybody is free from any kind of judgement or discrimination. We can live in a world where every one is treated equality, but that doesn't mean we would live in a world where everyone is treated fairly and treated without discrimination.
There were many different policies that limit social equity, such as sharecropping. The landowner would make the sharecropper do all of the work and then say that the sharecropper owes more money than he actually did. Sharecroppers probably lacked an education which meant that they couldn't try to argue with the landowner so that they could make more money.
These limits guided the ideas for social uplift. These ideas were brought along by thought leaders like W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington. One example of this was the Talented 10th, which brought along the idea of someone leading the group of African Americans towards being uplifted. This demonstrated progress for the African Americans and really showcased the idea of social uplift.
After freedom was achieved (the freeing of the slaves in 1863) the fight for equality began. But, equality cannot really be achieved without equity first. Equality is everyone receiving the same, regardless of where they stand or their condition. Equity is fairness, each getting what they need to reach the same level. In this case, the now freed slaves should have been given what they need to be on the same financial and social standing as regular, middle class whites. From there, everyone would be treated equally, the same, to keep the level. But this did not happen. Segregation did.
Segregation was the law mandated separation of races in public spaces, such as schools, hospitals, and the ilk. It was intended to be separate but equal, and it started that way, but once it was time for repairs in the black facilities and such, they were given little money for upkeep. Soon the difference between black and white was blaring.
Jim Crowe Laws also oppressed the black community.
"Fairness" and "equality" are definitely not the same thing. As stated in previous posts, equality means that everything is the same, and it promotes fairness by giving everyone the same thing. However, this means everyone has to start at the same place. Fairness is the access to equal opportunities no matter your background. It caters to each individuals' needs, thus fairness is needed in order to have equality. The picture above is a good example of both. In equality, the people in the picture are given boxes of the same height, despite the fact that they were of different heights themselves. In the "equity" (or fairness) side, the boxes were given to those who needed it, making an equal opportunity available.
Policies and practices that limit social equity/oppress the Black community was disenfranchisement. For example, Mississippi ratified a new constitution in 1890 that disenfranchised black voters by requiring a literacy test, which contained ridiculous questions that are not answerable, and also requiring a payment of poll tax to be eligible to vote. Other southern sates imposed complicated residential requirements for registering, and they imposed the Grandfather Clause to deny their right as well. I agree with Gianna, sharecropping was another method used to oppress Blacks. The sharecropper is provided with land /seed by the landowner, and in turn, the landowner will be given half of the sharecropper's crop. The sharecropper will buy food and clothing from the landowner's store on credit, and continues to work the land. After giving the landowner the crops to sell, the sharecropper will get half of the earnings. However, the landowner will say that the sharecropper owes more than he has earned. To pay the debt, the sharecropper must give a greater share of next year's crop. This ties the sharecropper to one plantation and he makes little money. Since most of the sharecroppers are uneducated, they are taken advantage of and cannot defend themselves.
Ideas that guided social uplift were supported by the "thought leaders" we talked about in class, such as Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington. For example, Du Bois mentions the idea of the Talented Tenth. This idea stated that "exceptional men" of any race were going to save it, and uplift it. These selected men were the most educated of the Black population and would forward the cause for the rest of the people. These men will become the leaders who will advocate for development and improvement for their race.
I truly believe that fairness and equality are not the same thing. They both have different meanings. Fairness is when everyone is able to have the same goals, no matter what. Equality is when everything is alike. Like Gianna said, Equality is when everyone has to start out the same. I liked the picture that Mr.Jobs showed to the class. The image contained three indivudals watching a baseball game. The problem was that there was a medium sized gate in-between them. The three individuals started from tall to short. The short one needed the most boxes, rather than them all having one. That is fairness. Equality would be when all three of the boys had boxes. The shortest person still could not see the game, while the rest had a better view. Social equity was limited many, many ways. One certain way would be sharecropping. The sharecropper does all the work and gives the landowner crops to sell, in exchange for land. They also are able to buy food, clothes, and other things with the landowner's money. The landowner then states that the sharecropper owes more money than that of what he made, which makes the sharecropper end up working more. They end up continuing to work on the same plantation and end up with little money. This does not show fairness at all. Disenfranchisement was another way that limited social equity. I find this way very interesting. After the 15th amendment passed, which stated "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." (Found in the Bill Of Rights) Some states still did not allow colored men to vote. There were tests, like literacy ones which asked random questions. If someone got at least one wrong, they failed and would not be able to vote. Meanwhile most colored people were uneducated at the time, which made this completely not fair. There were also rules that stated a payment of poll tax to be completed to vote. That is also not equity. As you can see there were many things that limited social equity in the Post Reconstruction Era. Many did not show fairness at all.
As Elizabeth and Gianna said, "fairness"and "equality" are not the same thing. If ten people were handed a shoe (which is equality because everyone is getting the same thing) it would still not be fair because some people might of gotten a left shoe when they needed a right shoe, and so on. Sometimes what is equal is not always fair due to the fact that different people need different things for different situations.
Policies and practices in the Post Reconstruction Era that limited social equity or oppressed the Black community included sharecropping. Sharecropping was a system of agriculture where a landowner allowed a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops grown on that land. This limited equity because nothing was fair about how the landowners would take advantage of their tanants by owing them more than they really owe. This also oppressed the Black community because they were usually uneducated and could not argue with their landowner, even if their landowner was doing them wrong. This resulted in the Black community being stuck on their plantation with no other place to go, and not making much money either.
As Matthew said, these limits guided the ideas for social uplift.
The concepts of "fairness" and "equality" are often muddled together as the same thing in our everyday language, but they are in fact very different. To promote "equality" is to ensure everyone receives exactly the same thing. It would be the perfect ideal to strive for, if we all started out the same. To promote "fairness" is to provide special support to those that need it, in order for everyone to achieve equity. Differences that make it harder for some people to do the same things as others are catered to, and supported so those that have it do not fall behind the others that don't.
Segregation and Jim Crow Laws greatly limited social equity and oppressed the members of the Black community. It also is a good example that shows the difference between "fairness" and "equality". Their doctrine is "separate but equal", and, in a way, it is true. Both blacks and whites had their own facilities, such as restaurants, schools, and even water fountains, and, though it was separate, they were "equal" because they both had the same things. However, the qualities of the "colored facilities" were degradingly awful compared to the "white facilities"; education was poor, and facilities and buildings were often dilapidated and in shambles. After centuries of being enslaved, the blacks were still oppressed and treated with unfairness (inequity) even after being given the same thing (equality), and that shows just how different the concepts of "fairness" and "equality" really are.
Black thought leaders that were talked about in class and read about in the textbook, leaders such as Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Alexander Crummel, brought about social uplift. Though Du Bois and Washington had conflicting ideas on how to bring about social uplift, nevertheless they helped guided ideas for social uplift in the community through their actions.
“Fairness” and “equality” are often mistaken for having the same meaning. However, these words do not mean the same thing because each word has its own ramification. Although both words seem same, there is a fine line between being fair verses being equal. In class, Mr. Jobs explained: “…our differences and/or history can create barriers to participation so we must ensure equity before we can enjoy equality.” To be equal is to be the same. Equality promotes fairness and justice by giving everyone the same thing. However, this can only work if everyone starts at the same place. Some people have disadvantages while others have advantages. When referring to equality, there is no support because there are no advantages. In order to be equal, everyone is put on the same plane. Fairness is making sure all people get access to the same opportunities. Fairness can also be described as “equity.” To thoroughly understand the difference between these two words, think about fairness and equality in a school setting. A teacher can offer fairness by doing their best to give each student what he or she needed in order to be successful. What one individual needs as a student and what someone else needs may be very different. Just because one is trying to be fair does not necessarily mean it will come across as being equal.
As many other people mentioned, sharecropping was a practice that limited social equity during the Post Reconstruction Era. Sharecropping, also known as “Slavery by Another Name,” was a very common cycle during this particular era. The sharecropper is provided with materials and in exchange the landowner will receive half of the sharecropper’s crops. The sharecropper then buys from the landowner’s store while continuing to do all of the work. After giving the crops for selling, the sharecropper will earn half of his earnings. In return, the landowner claims that the sharecropper owes more than he has earned. The sharecropper is then responsible for paying the deb which means giving a greater share of crop the following year. Lack of education allows the landowner to cheat the sharecropper. The sharecropper does not know better and is not able to argue with the landowner. The sharecropping cycle ties the sharecropper to one plantation because he or she has no choice by to work until their debt is paid.
W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were two men who brought about social uplift. Thought leader Du Bois, brought about the idea of the “talented tenth.” This explained that the exceptional men of any race would save and uplift it. Du Bois believed that the best educated 10% of the Black population would forward the cause for the remaining people.
"Fairness" and "equality" are different because being fair means you accommodate someone's specific needs, such as giving a blind man a cane or a lame man a walker.
However, equality is giving everyone the same treatment regardless of who they are.
This can be a problem because in focusing on equality, it can be easy to forget the differences that keep people from having the same opportunities as others. If equity is properly executed then equality can be achieved as well. Some policies and practices
that limited social equity and/or introduced oppression to black communities include:
the process of sharecropping, (because it is the process of making a man entitled to a landowner for goods that he may have paid off years ago) the Jim Crow laws (these laws not only kept blacks from getting equity but also treated them as if they were inferior) and disenfranchisement (such as making the test that allowed people to vote extremely difficult for those with little schooling, many of whom were black).
As believed by many influential black leaders who arose after Reconstruction, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, social uplift was achieved by the "talented tenth" of any society who used their opportunities and resources to raise up members of the other 90% of society. However, there were fierce opponents of Du Bois, such as Booker T. Washington, who believed that black people's willingness to show their worth through diligence in areas of work that kept the world spinning (like agriculture) brought about social uplift.
fairness means the same amount, however equity means getting different amounts but to get to the same goal. Fairness is not the same as equity because fairness may seem the same, but people don't always receive the same goal as others.
There were events that took place that prevented from African Americans from receiving equity. During the post recreational era, the Jim Crow laws were established all from the act of one man. These Jim Crow laws prevented equity and caused the entire black community to be known as an inferior. They were pushed back from the white community and created segregation along with separate accessories. This began forming the statement "separate but unequal"
Influential and intelligent men became leaders and famous philosophers such as W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. These two men had different ideas but wished to achieve a similar goal. Du Bois thought in order for a society to strive, the "talented tenth" must raise the 90% so that everyone is equal (he was inspired by the concept of communism). Booker T. had a different philosophy in mind, his belief was to not start from the top and lift others, but to begin to learn from the bottom and work your way up to success. These two brought social uplift and hope to both educated and uneducated folks which helped them hope for a new era to arrive.
“Fairness”, also known as equity, is not the same as “equality”. Equity is about fairness and making sure people get access to the same opportunities. But equality is about sameness and it promotes justice by giving the same thing. (Jobs Lecture, Post-Reconstruction: A Nadir in Race Relations 1890-1920) When I think of equity and equality, I think of that image with the 3 people trying to see the event that was taking place. The equity and equality sides show the difference between the two majorly.
In the Post Reconstruction Era the science of Eugenics limited social equity and oppressed the Black community (but not just the black community). Eugenics was the study that certain negative characteristics were inherited and the goal was to improve the human population by prevented these characteristics from being passed on. Even though the science wasn’t talked about until years after it happened doesn’t mean there isn’t an effect on people. This limited the Black community (and other people in the lower class or minority groups) because doctors took away some people’s right to reproduce freely by sterilizing patients against their will or while the patients were unaware of what was going on.
Thought leaders W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington guided ideas for social uplift. Dubois believed in the idea of the Talented 10th and wanted to help the black people advance in equality. Washington believed in the idea of the Bottom Down and accepted blacks as being inferior. Even though these two ideas were different they both guided the Black community in a social uplift.
I do not believe that "equality" and "fairness" are the same thing. Equality means the state or quality of being equal. Fairness means to be free from bias and injustice. I agree with Winter when she said that, "being fair means you accommodate someone's specific needs". We all have different perspectives and opinions on what fair is. Equal means same and I do not believe there is more than one day to define that. To be fair, means to provide opportunities to others without any bias and despite their background. In Post-Reconstruction, sharecropping limited social equity and oppressed the Black community. Like Cayley said, "The sharecropping cycle ties the sharecropper to one plantation because he or she has no choice by to work until their debt is paid.". Sharecroppers had to suffer because they could not fight with landowners and they were taken advantage of them, which made it hard on them.
"Fairness" and "equality" are not the same just as knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Fairness takes into account disadvantages and advantages in an attempt to get rid of them and create a even ground for all. It allows everyone to have the same experience and to bring people to an equal level to each other. Equality however, is giving the same thing to everyone. The thing is, not everyone will be equal as one may have not had the same disadvantages or advantages as another. For example, you can give three kids each an apple, but one of them already had one. This means he would have more apples than the others with this idea of equality. In order to get true equality, everyone has to start from the same ground, which means that equity, or fairness, must first exist before true equality (where everyone has the same) can exist.
During the post-reconstruction era, many policies and practices during the time prevent social equity and therefore also preventing equality. "Jim Crow" laws were sets of laws that made racial segregation legal and promoted inequity and inequality, despite the fact that blacks were supposed to be "separate but equal". Included in the Jim Crow laws were laws that disenfranchised many blacks due to failure to meet the requirements, such as passing an incredibly tough literacy exam or the grandfather clause. This way, it looked as though they were equal, but they were actually not as it was near impossible for blacks to vote with these laws and stipulations. Another thing that prevented social equity was sharecropping, a system of work that essentially kept a worker in debt for years.
When there were ideas for social uplift, many of them were lead by famous intellectuals such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Despite them not sharing a common method and not agreeing with each other, they both wanted the same goal, which was for blacks to be accepted by whites and to be equal.
Fairness is not the same as equality. Fairness is giving three people with different heights walking sticks that correlate with their individual heights. Equality would be giving each of them an equal sized stick. The problem with equality is that it does not consider anything other than making sure everything equivalent, while fairness meets the individual needs of people to give them what they need.
One thing which limited equity for blacks was sharecropping. Sharecropping forced blacks into a corner. They had to work to survive and one of the few jobs they could get exploited this fact and freed blacks lack of outside experience. Sharecropping took advantage of the lack of educated blacks which was caused by slavery. By doing these things sharecropping acted as a legal type of slavery.
One of the main things which guides the ideas for social uplift in this time are black colleges. Black colleges worked to lessen the education gap between blacks and whites. It was understood that schooling was very important to advancing blacks in America. It gave them a foothold in the door.
The terms "equality" and "fairness" do not have the same meanings. Equality is when people are given the same things regardless of their circumstance. Fairness is when an individual's needs are accommodated properly to the point where everyone can be on the same level. True equality can be achieved by using fairness.
As mentioned by many others, the practice of sharecropping was one of the most popular methods in which social equity is limited during the Post Reconstruction Era. Since many of the workers were uneducated, they were easily taken advantage of by the landowners. Though the sharecropper does all the work, little to none of what he produces actually gives him a profit. Landowners claim that the sharecropper owes more than what he actually does. Since the sharecropper has no method of proving otherwise, the sharecropper is stuck paying off a large amount of debt that he doesn't truly have in the first place. The placement of Jim Crow laws also limited the possibility of social equity and it oppressed the Black community just as the practice of sharecropping did. These laws suggested the idea that society can function as "separate but equal." These laws made segregation legal and since there were many racial prejudices, each community did not receive the same resources and opportunities (think of the literacy test).
Thought leaders such as Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington guided the ideas of the social uplift. These thought leaders advocated for the betterment of their community whether it was through education or through labor. Their influence created organizations that aided the Black community and it also affected some governing powers.
Equality and fairness is not the same thing . The reason why they are not the same because equality is the principle of every being able to have the same things ,but is able for some to have an advantage over others .For example the education of children in this time whites were able to get better tools and educators in their schools ,but in minority schools the get poor educator and old beaten books.So in term of equality and fairness This system is equal ,but not fair. To make it fair all students would have to have the same tools and educators available to them. One of the main problems during this era that oppressed the black community is sharecropping . Like many other said the was used to take advantage of uneducated african american and bring back slave in a new form ,but with very,very ,very little pay.Another is the Jim Crow laws which segregated blacks and white more than ever creating a system that prevented blacks for doing anything basically. Last Ideas of social uplift were shown especially when black collages were created to give blacks a chance to better themselves through the limited amount of good education available to them.
I don't think fairness and equality are not the same thing. Equality is when everyone and everything is treaded or given the exact same as everyone else. Fairness is when people or helped more or given more to be as powerful or the same as other people. A good example of what I am saying is the picture that was shown in class. The one side that showed equality had kids at a stadium who were all given one box to stand on. There it shows everyone was given exactly the same even if all of the boys views of the stadium were not the same. The other side was fairness. the shortest kid was given two boxes so and the middle height kid was given one box. This shows the fairness because some kids were given more than the other so that everyone could see at the same level.
In the Post Reconstruction Era social equity was limited because of sharecropping. The sharecroppers didn't have an education so landowners took advantage of them a lot and they couldn't do anything about it. The sharecroppers did all of the work and the landowners would say they owed them money. The Jim Crow laws allowed segregation to be done legally, causing racial acts.
Some things that guided the ideas of the social uplift were the creation of black colleges, and people like W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington. No matter what they had to do and what they went through they both had the same idea of trying to make blacks as equal as whites. Also the constant push to end racism.
Fairness and Equality are two completely different concepts. Equality is where everyone has the same, it is a total equal. But fairness is where everybody has what they need according to how much, or of what they need. But somewhere in between these two is what brings them both to be what they are meant to be. Equality brings a problem in that it does not consider anything other than making sure everything equivalent, while fairness meets the individual needs of people to give them what they need. An example of the difference between the two is this. Say you want equality and there is a small boy, a medium boy, and a big boy, and you give them all 1 biscuit thus having equality. The problem would be that 1 biscuit might be enough for the small boy but not the others. Fairness would have each boy recieving enough biscuits to feed them properly. That is a good way to describe the difference.
Equity is the the same as fairness. In the post-reconstruction era there were many policies and events that prevented racial equity, and equality. One popular farming technique was sharecropping. Sharecropping was a replacement for having slaves in the fields in a sense. What it did was completely limit the people working under the landowners so that they could barely get by, and would never see the real results of their work. Another policy was the Jim Crowe laws. These laws essentially made the black folks bow down and show white people and uneccesary respect, and it promoted racial segregation. In this time there was a false sense of equity that wasn't real. Even lynch mobs that killed innocent black folk was a part of preventing racial equality. But despite all this there was social uplift movement trying to achieve an equality led by thought leaders like Booker T. Washington.
I do not believe that equality and fairness is the same thing. Fairness is the quality of making judgments that are free from discrimination. Equality is the state of being equal. When people are being fair, it means that people are not being judged or banned from doing certain things because of their background or differences. When people are equal, they are the same. People will withhold the same rights, will have the same opportunities available for them and will be treated as one nation. A society can have equality, but still be unfair. For example, every citizen has the right to apply for any job they are interested in, in the U.S, which is equality, but if the manager of that business declines your application due to your racial or ethnic background, that is being unfair. In Post-Reconstruction, social equity was limited by sharecropping and resulted in harsh treatment towards the black community. Sharecroppers suffered because the landowners took advantage of them and the sharecroppers were unable to fight against them. This made the sharecroppers have a hard time making a living.
Fairness and Equality are definetly not the same thing. Equality means that everyone starts from the same place but this does not mean that everyone will end up at the same level.Fairness means that everyone does not start at the same level but everyone works to be at the same level and have adjustments made to get to the same level.In our society some people are blacked from getting to this equal level because of backgrounds races and many other barriers.The picture mr jobs showed us depicted a really good example of this. It showed visually exactly how this works. I believe the the root of both equality and fairness all centers around money. The ultimate goal of everyone is to be at the top with the most money but this can not happen with equality but it can happen with fairness.The Post Reconstruction era limited social equity. The sharecropper would do all the work but not receive as much much money as the landowner. This is a great example of of fairness vs equality. The landowner and the sharecropper could have started from the same place but developers and had different successions which is fairness. In conclusion quality and fairness are not the same thing because equality puts everyone at different levels but fairness adjusts everyone to obtain the same level.
Fairness is not the same as equality. Equality means that everyone must have the same advantages and privileges. If everyone has the same foot stool to see a football game than equality is shown. However, it isn't fair for a short person if they still can't see the game and a tall person sees even clearer than just being on their feet. It becomes fair when a tall person, who can see the game without a footstool, gives the stool to a short person who can't see. That becomes fair for the short person because they can see just as much as someone whose taller without the stool. It's not equal because the tall person doesn't have a stool.
Sharecropping was a practice that limited social equity during the Post Reconstruction Era. Sharecropping was another name for slavery. The sharecropper is provided a shack by a landowner. The sharecropper will work in the fields are prepare the crops to be sold. Half of the profit will go to the landowner and half to the sharecropper. Sharecroppers were mostly blacks however there were whites as well. Sharecroppers made smaller income than half sometimes due to lack of education. The landowner would lie about the amount of profit made from the crops therefore the landowner would benefit by taking more than half. Disenfranchisement is also a practice that limited social equity and oppressed blacks because the right to vote was NOT enforced. Most blacks couldn't vote because of the poll taxes. There were literacy tests that limited the amount of people who were uneducated because it was hard to pass and made to benefit whites.
Advocate such as W.E.B. Dubois believed in a rule called the talented 10th. 10% of the people at the top are education and the rest are below them. The bottom part of the pyramid would benefit and grow from the people at the top, unifying the race of colored people.
The ideas of "fairness" and "equality" are certainly not the same thing. In class we talked about how equality is sameness and fairness is equity.The picture above explains this concept very well. In class we also did an activity where ten volunteers takes off one of there shoes and each of the ten took a different shoe. There was equality because everyone got a shoe. There wasnt fairness because people have different sized feet and the shoe they chosen might not have been for the leg that needed a shoe. So as you can see even though everyone was equal, there wasnt fairness which establishes a difference.
A practice that limited social equity in the Post Reconstruction Era was sharecropping.Essentially landowners provide sharecroppers land in trade for half the crops they produce. The sharecropper does every single bit of the labor and provides the landowner crops to put up for sale. The land owners often trick the sharecroppers into saying they owe them money. This makes the sharecroppers work over time to repay the landowner back. The sharecroppers were most probable to be uneducated and could not disagree with the landowner, consequential in them being attached to one plantation and making a small amount of cash. The landowners using the lacking of education of sharecroppers causes the sharecroppers to be taken advantage of. How is this fair?
A Policy that limits social equity/oppresses the Black community was disenfranchisement. For instance, the Jim Crow laws were laws that disenfranchised lots of blacks because of malfunction to gather the necessities, like doing well on an extremely hard reading and writing assessment. This system made it seem as though they were equal, but they were in reality not as it was close to impractical for blacks to take part in an election with these laws and conditions.
A promoter named W.E.B. Dubois felt strongly in a rule entitled the talented 10th. 10% of the people at the top are education and the remaining is underneath them. The bottom part of the pyramid would advantage and develop from the people at the top, combining the race of black people
In my opinion, “equality” and “equity” have two totally different meanings. Equality promotes justice by giving everyone the same thing. In the picture above, the artist depicts equality by giving everyone one stool. Everyone was equal because they were given the same amount of items, but it was not
“fair” because some were not able to see the game due to their height. In contrast, equity is more about fairness. Everyone is given an equal opportunity. As shown in the picture above, everyone is able to see the game. The short people who were not able to see, were given stools so that they everyone was given a fair opportunity to watch the game. I agree with Elia when she said “What is equal is not always fair.” People may be given the same opportunities, but quality, disabilities, and physical appearances become a huge limiting factor. Furthermore, sharecropping was a practice that limited social equity during the Post Reconstruction Era. Sharecropping is simply when a sharecropper is provided with half of the landowners property, but in return the sharecropper gives the landowner half of their crops. The landowner sells the materials, and the sharecropper receives a portion of the earnings. However, the sharecropper has to pay for the debt. The sharecropped is forced to work until their debt is paid off. Due to lack of education, landowners are able to get one over on the sharecroppers. Additionally, Eugenics was another practice that limited social equity during the Post Reconstruction Era. In a nutshell, Eugenics was the attempt to create a perfect society. If doctors saw a characteristic in someone that would harm society, they prevented that person from having babies. This limited the black community because doctors limited people’s rights to have babies freely.
Before this class, I thought fairness and equality were the same thing, but my mind has changed. Equality only works, as Elizabeth stated, when everyone starts at the same place. However, we all know this is not the case in real life. Equality is giving everyone the same treatment. That, in theory, sounds great, but equal treatment can become unfair. With the whole "separate but equal" issue, I used to think it was a stupid statement because you cannot be separate and equal. But Aline brought up a good point: the blacks WERE given some equal treatment; they were given schools and restaurants as the whites were. But that did not make it fair. Fairness is when each person is given what they are needed to be comfortable in their situation. For example: it would be fair to give a single mother of two more money than a woman living alone because the mother has to support her children as well. This isn't equal, but fair. In the Post-Reconstruction Era, sharecropping and Jim Crow laws were made to limit the equity of blacks.
As stated by the others, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington gave ideas for social uplift, though Dubois and Washington's ideas often conflicted.
"Fairness" and "equality" are not the same thing. Equality means everything is the same. It promotes fairness by giving people the same things, but this means everyone has to start out the same. Fairness is when people are given access to the same opportunities no matter where they came from.these words do not mean the same thing because each word has its own ramification. Although both words seem same, there is a fine line between being fair verses being equal. In class, Mr. Jobs explained: “…our differences and/or history can create barriers to participation so we must ensure equity before we can enjoy equality.” To be equal is to be the same. Equality promotes fairness and justice by giving everyone the same thing. Policies and practices in the Post Reconstruction Era that limited social equity or oppressed the Black community included sharecropping. Sharecropping was a system of agriculture where a landowner allowed a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops grown on that land. This limited equity because nothing was fair about how the landowners would take advantage of their tanants by owing them more than they really owe. This also oppressed the Black community because they were usually uneducated and could not argue with their landowner, even if their landowner was doing them wrong. This resulted in the Black community being stuck on their plantation with no other place to go, and not making much money either. One of the main things which guides the ideas for social uplift in this time are black colleges. Black colleges worked to lessen the education gap between blacks and whites. It was understood that schooling was very important to advancing blacks in America. It gave them a foothold in the door.The landowner would lie about the amount of profit made from the crops therefore the landowner would benefit by taking more than half. Disenfranchisement is also a practice that limited social equity and oppressed blacks because the right to vote was NOT enforced. Most blacks couldn't vote because of the poll taxes. There were literacy tests that limited the amount of people who were uneducated because it was hard to pass and made to benefit whites.
Advocate such as W.E.B. Dubois believed in a rule called the talented 10th. 10% of the people at the top are education and the rest are below them. The bottom part of the pyramid would benefit and grow from the people at the top, unifying the race of colored people.
Fairness and equality are not the same thing, and, though they can go hand in hand, can often times unbalance each other when a situation arises involving subjects such as race. To be equal means to have all things the same, which can begin to inspire fairness in some scenarios; whereas, to be fair means to to offer the same opportunities and experiences to everyone. Equality focuses to make sure everyone gets the same thing, but fairness focuses to assure that everyone has what they need. As an example to clearly explain both terms, like the height differences in the image we viewed during class, if three girls of different sizes are looking for a prom dress and each is offered a size 5 dress, that is equality. It isn't fair though because, if each girl is a different size, they can't all get the dress they want because it doesn't fit properly.
In the Post Reconstruction Era, there were multiple policies and practices that limited social equity, oppressing the Black community. One such policy was segregation. As Aline said, it shows the difference between equity and equality, specifically through their "separate but equal" doctrine. They purposefully separated the Blacks and Whites, leaving Blacks and Whites having all of the same opportunities in varying degrees of stability and quality. Both groups had schools for education, restaurants to eat in, and other facilities, but they did not share them, and the facilities of the Blacks were more often than not in relative shambles. The Whites' facilities were much more closely maintained, just as the Blacks received next to nothing. Even after centuries of slavery finally coming to an end, the oppression of the Blacks was still extremely evident. It may have been "equal," but it was certainly not "fair."
Social uplift can be guided by many factors. In Black communities, it was most often guided by the ideas of influencial Black leaders and ideas that came about in the Post Reconstruction Era. Voices like that of W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington. They had somewhat conflicting ideas, but they both worked towards, in the end, social uplift. DuBois studied the "talented tenth," which was the idea that the responsibility of lifting the community fell to ten percent of the population were meant to lift - or provide resources to - the other ninety percent of the population. Booker T. Washington had a different outlook on the predicament of Blacks. Washington believed in the "Bottom Down" theory; in it, Blacks were simply meant to start at the bottom and make them up through working rather diligently to make their way up through society, lifting the community.
I strongly disagree with the statement- "equality" and "fairness" are the same thing. Equality is the state or quality of being equal. Fairness is without bias and injustice. I agree with many others that said, "being fair means you accommodate someone's specific needs". All humans have different meanings on everything so we all have differnt opinions and ways of thinking what fair really is. Equal means same. Being fair, means to give opportunities to others without any bias or injustice and no mstter what. While learning about Post-Reconstruction, sharecropping limited social equity and oppressed the Black community.Sharecroppers had to suffer because they could not fight with landowners and they were taken advantage of them, which made it hard on them almost like slavery.
Overall, Fairness and is not the same as equality. Just as the image showed with the baseball scenario. Equality basically means everything is the same, all conditions, treatments and beneficial things are all the same for everyone. There are no higher levels in equality. As Gianna said, Fairness is when people are given a chance/access to the same opportunities and choices.
Some policies and practices that limit social equity or oppress the Black community were share cropping. This policy was truly ridiculous because the landowner asks the services of the black person and the landowner basically tricks the blacks into more debt and therefore making the blacks work for them more longer than usual.
Ideas that guided social uplift came from speakers such as W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington. For example the idea that DuBois came up with was called the Talented 10th. This talented 10th percent of blacks would improve society and uplift the community around them.
In class we talked about how fairness is equity. Also we discussed the differences and similarities. between equality and equity so I personally do not believe that “fairness” and “equality” are the same thing. Fairness means to be free from bias and injustice. Fairness is what is fair for each individual. While reading some of these other posts I came across Winter’s and I saw that she said that “being fair means you accommodate someone’s specific needs”. I agree with her statement. Everyone; each individual has a different perspective on what is fair. To provide or give special opportunities for certain people without bias and forgetting about their past is to be fair. Equality means the state of being equal. Being equal means everyone has or is the same. After freedom was achieved in 1863 everyone began to fight for equality. Freed slaves had to fight for their right to be equal. Freed slaves should have been given what they needed to survive like financial wise but they weren’t. They had to fight for where they are now. Everyone should be treated equal. Instead of everyone being ruled equal segregation happened.
Segregation was a law that mandated separation of races in public places such as hospitals and schools. Segregation was intended to be separate but equal to everyone and it started out that way..but it didn’t follow up that way. Another big thing that oppressed the black community was Jim Crowe’s laws. Once it was time for repairs and changes in black facilities and work they were given very little and barely any money to survive and to keep up and support their families. This was totally unfair.
Fairness is not the same as equality. Equality ensures everyone has the same opportunities however, Fairness entails getting what you believe to be a reasonably desirable result. Equality can be tangibly measured while fairness is in the eye of the beholder. I strongly agree with Matthew Anderson, we can live in a world where every one is treated equality, but that doesn't mean we would live in a world where everyone is treated fairly and treated without discrimination. With this said, just because we are equal we still will have difference with fairness because everyone will be treated differently based on who they are. Sharecropping was a system of agriculture where a landowner allowed a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops grown on that land. This limited equity because nothing was fair about how the landowners would take advantage of their tanants by owing them more money that what was really needed. This also shows how every body was equal but had different amounts of fairness. These two great philosophers W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington had many different beliefs but wished to achieve a similar goal. Du Bois thought in order for a society to strive, the "talented tenth" must raise the 90% so that everyone is equal. On the other hand, Booker T. Washington's belief was to begin from the bottom and work your way up to success.
"Equality" and "Fairness" are not the same thing. They both go hand hand but are completely different. Having equality is having the same thing. From beginning to end everything is the same. fairness is when everybody gets the right to see things the same way by adjusting the circumstances at that time. A great example of the two is the picture shown in class and three people and one part was equality and another was fairness. In order for them all to see the same one person was smaller then thee older so they needed a boulder or two and the taller person didn't. Equality is when everyone gets one boulder but for the small person it wasn't enough. I think personally that sharecropping was a practice that limited social equity. Sharecropping is when the land owners give the sharecroppers some land but in trade for a a certain amount of crops they grow usually half. The landowner can also potentially do other things with the land owners money.
As many people have stated, the things that limited African American's social and political rights was social uplift.
"Equality" and "fairness" are not the same thing. Equality ensure everyone has the same opportunities, Fairness entails getting what you believe to be a reasonably desirable result. Everyone was equal because they were given the same amount of items, but it was not able to see the game due the their height. The lands owners often trick the sharecroppers int saying they owe them money. the landowner can also potentially do other things with land owner money. Advocate such as W.E.B. Dubois believed in a rule called the talented 10th. Even lynch mobs that killed innocent black folk was a part of preventing racial equality.
I do not believe fairness and equality is even close to being the same thing, along with many others. The definition of equality is the state or quality of being equal, and the definition of fairness is something without bias and injustice. Policies and or practices in the Post Reconstruction Era that limited social equity or oppressed the Black community, included sharecropping. Sharecropping was the system of agriculture where one landowner allowed one tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops he was growing on that land. Most of the time, sharecroppers lacked an education, which meant they basically had close to no ways to argue against the landowner for more money. These limits guided the ideas for a social uplift, which were brought on by leader(s) W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington. A good example for this happening was the talented 10th in which they thought the idea of bringing somebody up to lead the group of African Americans. Du Bois believed that the best-educated 10% of the Black population would forward the cause for the remaining people. These two men brought social uplift and hope to both educated and uneducated folks, who helped them hope for a new era and future to arrive.
I don't believe that "equality" and "fairness" are the same thing. Equality means the state or quality of being equal. Fairness means to be free from bias. We all have different perspectives and opinions on what fair is and what isn't fair. Equal means to same but to other people it means something different other than the same. To be fair, means to provide opportunities to others without any bias and no matter what their background. In Post-Reconstruction, sharecropping limited social equity and oppressed the Black community. Sharecroppers had to suffer because they could not fight with landowners and they were taken advantage of them, which made it hard on them. The things that limited African Americans social and political rights was known as a social uplift.
I don’t think fairness and equality is the same thing. Just like what Gianna said, I also think that equality means everything is equal. Everybody has the same thing. But fairness means that everybody got the same opportunities. Just like the picture that you showed us in class, Everybody has one box to support them. It is equal. But it isn’t fair because the shortest guy still need more boxes. I think to be fair, you have to give up equalities so that everybody have the same opportunities. You need fairness so it can be equal. Policies and or practices in the Post Reconstruction Era that limited social equity or oppressed the Black community is sharecropping. Sharecropping was a system where a landowner allowed a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops grown on that land.The sharecropper is provided with materials and in exchange the landowner will receive half of the sharecropper’s crops. Some sharecroppers lack education so its easy for the landowner to fool them. This limited equity because it is not fair how the landowners take advantage of the sharecroppers by making them pay more money. W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington are two philosopher that want to achieve similar goal. They want to promote social uplift. W.E.B Dubois believed in the idea of the Talented 10th.and wanted to help the black people advance in equality. Washington believed in the idea where you must start from the bottom to achieve the top. They wanted the same goal, which is to get everybody fair and equal.
Fairness and equality are two totally different things. Fairness is the act of people getting access to the same opportunities;whereas, equality means that everyone is being treated the same. Everyone has the same rights and obligations. Ideas that guided social uplift came from speakers such as W.E.B Dubious and Booker T. Washington. The idea that Dubious came up with was called the Talented 10th. This talented 10th percent of blacks would improve society and uplift the community around them.The bottom part of the pyramid would advantage and develop from the people at the top, combining the race of black people. But Aline was right when saying that the blacks WERE given some equal treatment; they were given schools and restaurants as the whites were. But just because they were given all this they still weren't looked at as equal.
Fairness is definitely not the same thing as equality. Equality means equal status rights and opportunities. Fairness means you are free from any bias activity or behavior and you see things from an objective point of views. If a certain individual is treated with equality, they are treated the same as other individuals, being treated fairly means you are given the same opportunities everyone else is given.
Segregation and Jim Crow Laws greatly limited social equity. These laws only applied to blacks and prevented them from receiving equality. Social equality also was not reached because of sharecropping. Sharecropping is when a landowner will allow a tenant to use their land, in exchange for an exchange of the props grown.
Some things that paved the way for social uplift are black colleges (an example would be Great Debaters). A promoter named W.E.B. Dubois felt strongly in a rule entitled the talented 10th. 10% of the people at the top are education and the remaining is beneath hem. The bottom part of the pyramid would give those an advantage and develop from the people at the top, combining the race of black people
As several others mentioned, I agree that fairness and equality are two completely opposite things. Fairness is the act of being free from bias activity or behavior. As equity is the state of having equal rights. Each individual has their own perspective on things. In the Post Reconstruction Era, sharecroppers had to suffer because they could not fight with the landowners. Several limits guided the idea for social uplift. W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were two men who brought about social uplift. W.E.B Du Bois brought about the idea of the "talented tenth". This idea explained that the exceptional men of any race would save and uplift it. Du Bois believed that the better educationed ten percent of the black population would continue the cause for the remaining people.
I truly believe that fairness and equality are not the same thing. They both have different meanings. Fairness is when everyone is able to have the same goals, no matter what. Equality is when everything is alike. Fairness caters to peoples' needs, and though it may not seem equal, fairness is needed to get to equality. As many other people mentioned, sharecropping was a practice that limited social equity during the Post Reconstruction Era. Sharecropping, also known as “Slavery by Another Name,” was a very common cycle during this particular era. The sharecropper is provided with materials and in exchange the landowner will receive half of the sharecropper’s crops. The sharecropper then buys from the landowner’s store while continuing to do all of the work. After giving the crops for selling, the sharecropper will earn half of his earnings. These limits guided the ideas for social uplift. These ideas were brought along by thought leaders like W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington. One example of this was the Talented 10th, which brought along the idea of someone leading the group of African Americans towards being uplifted.This showed the progress of African Americans and the idea of social uplift.
"Equality and "Fairness" are not the same. equality means that everything is equal. Everything is the same. For example, everybody gets the same amount of juice. That's being equal towards everyone. Fairness is when people are given the same opportunities no matter where they came from. For example, if a child could not see a game, but an adult could, then the child would not have the same view as the adult. But, if the child had something to stand on that will help the child to see the game, then both the adult and child have the game. I believe in order to succeed equality, you first have to succeed fairness.
One of the policies that limited social equity was sharecropping. Sharecroppers didn't have the proper education like a landowner would. The landowners would use the education to the advantage, because the sharecroppers didn't and make them work. The landowners would say that the sharecropper owes more money.
Ideas that guided social uplift were supported by the " thought leaders", such as Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Ida B. Wells. Du Bois mentions the Talented Tenth. The idea stated that any race "exceptional men" of any race were to save and uplift it. These three leaders are the ones that developed and improved African American race.
Fairness and equality are often characterized in the same group by saying both get the same privileges, but the truth of the matter is that they are more different than one could imagine. Equality is giving each individual the same materialistic opportunity. Fairness is giving everyone the support they’ll need in order to actually be equal. In the Reconstruction Era segregation laws, in particular Jim Crow limited the social equity of the black community of in numerous ways. Jim Crow law was one of the most enacted laws of segregation during the 1870s. List of Jim Crow Laws:
-Never assert or even intimate that a white person is lying.
-Never impute dishonorable intentions to a white person.
-Never suggest that a white person is from an inferior class.
-Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior knowledge or intelligence.
-Never curse a white person.
-Never laugh derisively at a white person.
-Never comment upon the appearance of a white female. A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it implied being socially equal. Obviously, a black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a white woman, because he risked being accused of rape.
-Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together. If they did eat together, whites were to be served first, and some sort of partition was to be placed between them.
Under no circumstance was a black male to offer to light the cigarette of a white female -- that gesture implied intimacy.
-Blacks were not allowed to show affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended whites.
-Jim Crow etiquette prescribed that blacks were introduced to whites, never whites to blacks. For example: "Mr. Peters (the white person), this is Charlie (the black person), that I spoke to you about."
-Whites did not use courtesy titles of respect when referring to blacks, for example, Mr., Mrs., Miss., Sir, or Ma'am. Instead, blacks were called by their first names. Blacks had to use courtesy titles when referring to whites, and were not allowed to call them by their first names.
If a black person rode in a car driven by a white person, the black person sat in the back seat, or the back of a truck.
-White motorists had the right-of-way at all intersections.“Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.”
These type of unnecessary laws oppressed the black community by making them feel inferior and much more likely to feel like an Alien for they couldn’t eat ,look ,play, to a white person, and if they were to speak to a white person, they were to address them a certain way. It also oppresses the black community because this is not equity, its equality because during this Era they considered these rules as something black and whites were equal to but just separate. In addition, Jim Crow laws oppressed the back community but making them less to than white people instead of giving them the same support white people were given. However, social uplift began, due to black activist leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois, NAACP, Black Panthers, Booker T. Washington. Dr. King uplifted the social by speaking out and protesting in non-violent movements, his words moved the nation and helped both white and black people see what kind of society we lived in. Malcolm X however was a courageous activist complete opposite of Dr. King, but he was still noticed creating change for the black community. W.E.B Du Bois was a thought leader he and Booker T. Washington, encouraged African Americans to fix their actions and dignity. Although both of these thought leaders had conflicts with what they wanted to do for the black community, they still encouraged education of African Americans. These leaders helped uplift this broken society in to one.
In my opinion fairness and equality are similar, but not exactly the same. The word “equality” means same and the word “fair” usually refers to being unbiased. I believe that being fair is to fit someone’s specific needs. Like when we did the shoe activity during class. In the end everyone had two shoes, so they were all equal, however it wasn’t fair because some people had one shoe that didn’t fit or that they didn’t like. That activity really helped me to wrap my head around the differences. In Post- Reconstruction the sharecropping limited the social equality and it also oppressed the African American community. I agree with Cayley when she said, "The sharecropping cycle ties the sharecropper to one plantation because he or she has no choice by to work until their debt is paid." It was very difficult for the sharecroppers because they pretty much were taken advantage of. They couldn’t really fight with the landowners because that would cause problems, and they most likely wouldn’t win.
Fairness in the Post Reconstruction South is not the same as Equality to me. That’s because the black people of the South had a slew of problems, starting from false use of arrest, lynchings and continuing with no support for defense to a big lack of civil rights.
Black people had no equity in the court system. It’s like in the Scottsboro Boys trial. The Scottsboro Boys got the worst lawyers for the defense. It’s equal but is that fair? The Scottsboro Boys was a case that took and ended the lives of nine innocent people. This happened all the time in the Post Reconstruction South. One of the Scottsboro Boys was blind because he couldn’t afford glasses. The Scottsboro Boys had no chance. No white person could understand this because since they have a different skin color it doesn’t upset them as much. If you were black, then your heart would be shattered if you had these obstacles. The Scottsboro Boys got equal treatment in court but no equity. If we look back at our American past we would find that one of our biggest tragedies is the way black people were treated in the Post Reconstruction.
Think about the school system in the South Back then. There were hardly any high schools in the Deep South. There were some in the Upper South. A lot of black schools were private. There weren’t even that many elementary schools. A lot of the schools were in shacks. The teachers weren’t trained.
Black schools were generally run independently by black people and had absolutely no support from either party. Black people had no chance of learning in them because they had no support.
Sharecropping was basically a way for Southerners to trick and treat freedmen. What happens is that the freedmen couldn’t afford all their debt they had to give the plantation owner a certain proportion of their crop. They couldn’t pay what the slave masters ordered from them. Sharecropping helped white Southerners get back in business and their plan work. To make sure that they would never lose that again they invented the KKK and Jim Crow laws. The KKK terrorized people out of their right to vote. This reminds me of the book Uncle Tom’s Children, which I read when a black teenager gets tarred and feathered for real.
The ideas that guided social uplift were the circumstances that black people were in that seemed to cause a huge negative reaction with white people. It was in the late 1890s and early 20th century that two individuals would have two solutions that would change the course of history for blacks. Booker T. Washington’s statement was ”Start from the bottom and work so you can make it on the white economic ladder so that you can make it into the white world.” W.E.B. Du Bois said that no matter where you are as long as the KKK and the Jim Crow South are alive no black person will make it out even if they do start from the bottom.
"Fairness" & "Equality" are used everyday as the same term. I completely disagree with the use of the words. Fairness is when people are all equally happy with what they have. Equality is when everyone receives the same thing. In example the video we watched about the upcoming white society in the collage. In the video the people in the organization complained that they weren't being treated equally. But the fact was that just because the weren't given the equality of other ethnic groups doesn't mean they weren't treated fair;y. As regular white citizens they got the race respect the should have gotten without an organization. If the white society became a national society then the other organizations such as The NAACP would not be as fairly treated as the white society.
Fairness and Equality, Two words said to be the same thing but are definitely not the same thing and anyone who says that they are are dead wrong. How they are different are though the meanings for each word because fairness means that everyone gets the same things and is basically blind to color, money and social ranking. An example of fairness is the picture shown to us in class of the three people that were different heights but all saw the game. Even though one had no box, one had 1 box and one had 2 boxes to stand on they all the the game. Equal is different because what it means to be equal is that everyone gets the same things but does not cater to peoples needs like fairness does. An example of equality is the picture shown to us in class of the tree people of different heights all standing on a box of the same size. Even though they all had a box to stand on one saw the game better than the other two and one didn't even see the game because he was small. In order to have equality we first need fairness, even though it doesn't seem fair it caters to people’s needs and that means everyone can truly be equals.
Much like how people think that fairness is equality they think that the Post Reconstruction Era was a good time for fairness but we all know it wasn't. The things that happened during that period limited Blacks rights of fairness so much that they were basically “slaves because of debt.” Why I say they were slaves to debt is because they were “free” in the sense that they weren't slaves but they had debts to pay off which was just like slavery. Sharecropping for example was one reason why blacks and even poor whites had to pay off their debts that they either never paid off or paid them off and never enjoyed life. Also Blacks were able to vote thanks to the 15th amendment but were either scared to vote because of the KKK and the White Southern Union or weren't eligible to vote because of test created for voting.
if a similar plague hit Philly i would grab the accentual and i would leave. i would leave in my car with my whole family we would travel off too a different state in america. we would probably go to California. i would go there because it's the state farthest away.
if a similar plague hit Philly i would grab the accentual and i would leave. i would leave in my car with my whole family we would travel off too a different state in america. we would probably go to California. i would go there because it's the state farthest away.
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