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Charles S. Deneen's Argumentative Analysis

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You are born into this world to a society already sure of what they want. You are taught the ways of your family and they learn from their community. If your family doesn’t like a certain type of person, chances are you’re going to grow up with the same dislike of that person. Leaders of a community get their votes by doing, saying, or promising things to the community that they will enjoy to win the votes. These leaders may never agree with what they're saying but they’ll do whatever it takes to make the nation happy. Segregation, a time where people actually believed it was okay to separate people from a community because of their skin color. But the time of segregation was more than just separating minorities from the white community. People took it upon themselves to put the law in their own hands and treat minorities very poorly. Public lynchings, brutal beatings, and vulgar words could be spit at a colored person and nobody would bat an eye. That was then though, and this is now. We don’t separate anymore, we don’t treat people unjustly, nor judge someone based upon …show more content…

Deneen sent in the National Guard after the lynchings to calm the crowd and protect inmates in the prison. Deneen, a republican, never stated one way or the other his viewpoint on segregation but it’s interpreted that he believed in a fair justice system of the court, not of the hands of blood hungry civilians. The population of Cairo dramatically decreased within the first two years prior to the lynchings to 14,458 by 1910 according to Collins (Collins 43). The white population slowly began to realize that once they couldn’t scare people of different skin types out of their community, they’d have to pack their bags and leave the town of Cairo themselves. In 2000, the population of Cairo was 3,632 and by 2010, it dropped to 2,831. According to the Census Viewer, only 27.55% of that whole population was white folks. The segregation of Cairo still continues

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