Wright and his view on Jews

Wright was brought up to believe that Jewish people were inferior compared to the black race.  They were taught that Jews were evil because they cursed Jesus and didn’t believe in Him.  It became expectable from a young age to ridicule and say racist remarks against the Jews because it is what everyone around them did.  It was normal for Wright and his friends to go around spitting racist and extremely rude remarks to Jew’s as they passed by them.  No one thought to except their religion or consider the actual story behind their belief.  This is very ironic considering the prejudice that they would instill upon Jewish people was the same types of prejudices that they experienced from whites.  Blacks were accustomed to being treated like animals by the whites.  Wright was in constant questioning of his mom about why whites and blacks were so separated, because as a kid he doesn’t really see a difference in people besides how they are treated.  Wright didn’t know at the time that calling the Jews names was anything but normal, and he saw absolutely nothing wrong with it.  In fact, it was the one thing bad he could say to another individual and not get beaten by his mother for it.  Even though it seems that because blacks were treated horrible by white they would not return the behavior to other ethnic groups, but that was far from the case.  They probably felt that it was okay because they had some other group of individuals that they could treat lower than the status they felt.  And, this would help them feel more human