Laws can change and be enforced, but if people's hearts don't change, nothing will change. The agelessness of Jim Crow entertainment helped fuel the fire of people's indifference toward African Americans. Jim Crow entertainment usually featured white men dressing up as black men and wearing extremely derogatory caricatures. In 1941 this deceptive propaganda was still active throughout the 1900s, and is shown no more clearly than in Warner Bros.' "All This And Rabbit Stew" starring Bugs Bunny. Children are not born with a resentment towards a race or ethnic group: it is programmed into their heads by what they see around them and what the society around them considers right, or even just normal. This form of entertainment ensured that deep-rooted hatred would not die with the Civil War generation, but would be passed down from generation to generation, and although Jim Crow entertainment did not always mock black people, the concept is still in circulation.
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