america the hideous.

as citizens of one of the best countries in the world, we should feel proud and confident in our country. most of us do, but there are things we deserve to hang our head in shame about. rights for anyone who wasn't white in the time of the jim crow laws was a disgrace to every citizen, and something even the most patriotic citizens are ashamed of. every right stripped from them, the jim crow laws made life for minorities prison. no marriage, segregated schools... miscegenation was declared a felony. it's amazing to see how times have transformed from then to now, mostly positively. we nostalgically talk about how times were so much better "back in the day," but we forget to remember the hell minorities went through on a daily basis. they didn't know what it was like to truly live, to truly love. when we think our lives are a mess, we should all remember that nothing could be as horrid as what those minorities went through in the early 1900's.