Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. The name of the states derives from the Mississippi River. The state is heavily forested outside of the Mississippi Delta area, which was cleared for cotton cultivation in the 19th century.
Mississippi has the lowest median household income, making it the poorest state in the nation. The state symbol is the Magnolia grendiflora tree.
This encyclopedic definition do not say nothing about racism, which we described as a belief that some races of people, in this case whites, are better than others. Mostly because of that I want to focus on that problem in my presentation to show you the real face of Mississippi- a state that can not seem to escape from its history, which unfortunately exist to these days. It should be noted that a word “history” means simply racism. And despite the fact that, slavery was abolished, ending Mississippi’s plantation way of life, some whites in the state still considered blacks in the state their inferiors. They live there as a subspiecies and second-class citizens. Without law, help, respect and dignity.
We considered Mississippi as a state of brutal treatment of coloured people, where segregation is visible in every part of their lifes. They have separated areas in the cities and in many different places like restaurants or bathrooms only for blacks because they do not want to have nothing common with them. Probably today we found the racism there more subtle, but no less hateful.
We could not erase the Ku Klux Klan from Mississippi history. That terrorist organization it holds that only white, heterosexual Christians deserve civil rights. The belief in “white power” make them very brutal warriors. They used a variety of tactics to harass and intimidate blacks and sympathetic whites including putting burning crosses on the lawns of individuals, arson, beating, rape and lynching. We can not even imagine how black people live there and what they feel during this time.
Every of this imagies as a proof we can find in various films set in Mississippi. The most suitable and realistic are: “ Mississippi Burning”, “ The Help” and “ Prom Night in Mississippi”. That movies show us how deep-rooted is racism in white Mississippians.
We can say that they are born with it. They express it with unusual candor.
And now is time to say clearly- there is no state with a record that approaches that of Mississippi in inhumanity murder, brutality and racial hatered.
The “Magnolia State” is beautiful only from the name but in reality bring disgrace upon the Nation. And as a Madgar Ever says “Freedom has never been free.” This true sentence sum up the situation in Mississippi.