http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYNfi4YyEp0&feature=related
This part shows how the black citizens were now able to buy houses, which caused the whites to ponder on how this happened and where they could have possibly gained the money from. Resentment towards blacks increased as racial hostility was accompanied by violence; every time on a white person saw a black on the street they were likely to fight them. If there was a white woman and black man together in public the woman would be beaten. This made me feel quite sad as to how people would discriminate against blacks solely because of their colour and how ignorant they were in those times, as nowadays things have drastically changed because everyone has equal rights. I realised that these black West-Indians were very strong emotionally, physically, mentally etc to endure all these hardships. This moment of time an age of 'tremendous cruelty against blacks' and the blacks no longer endured they began to fight back as they felt they were not appreciated for the work they have been doing.
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