The Sufferings of Jews and Blacks

The Sufferings of Jews and Blacks

The Jewish race has gone trough slavery and persecution over and over throughout the history of mankind. Once in a while, some insane person will come along, and feel the need to get rid of all God's chosen people. Even in the Old Testament, Pharaoh decided that there were too many Jews in Egypt, so to solve this problem, he enslaved to them. In order to control the population, he ordered all the male Jewish babies that were born, to be thrown into the Nile River. In the days of Queen Esther, Jews were unfairly treated when Haman talked King Xeres into passing a law to kill all the Jews. When Jesus was born, King Herod, after hearing the prophecies that the king of the Jews was going to be born, put out a decree that all males two and under be put to death. After Germany defeated the Polish army and started their conquest to take over the world, a man named Adolf Hitler decided to try to destroy the Jews. The movie "Schindler's List", expresses how Jews were gathered, and forced to work in labor camps, as well as murdered in cold blood out in the open without shame. I thought about the struggle of African Americans and how our ancestors were taken from their homes in Africa, and forced to work on plantations and cotton fields. Most were beaten and mistreated and even executed if they refused.

Jews, as well as blacks, were forced to leave their homes, families, and friends, only to be enslaved to work for someone who thought they were better than them. Jewish people from all over the country had to leave their homes and move to major cities to be registered and labeled like livestock. Similar to this, blacks were also taken from their homelands just as the Jews were. Thousands of black people were placed in tiny spaces on slave ships, and shipped over seas. This was very comparable to the fact that the Jews were forced to live in run down apartment building in the ghetto with many other families whom were also captured.

Many blacks that survived the trip over to America were sold to the highest bidder. Most bidders had farms and plantations where the black slaves were put to work right away.