Who was Jim Crow?
ALTHOUGH the term Jim Crow refers to the US' former repressive racial laws, the origin of the name Jim Crow dates back before the Civil War. Tucker Carlson recently raged against separating vaccinated Americans from unvaccinated people in certain stores, restaurants, and other service facilities, claiming they "enforced segregation." 5 Flood refugees lined up and waiting for food at a temporary camp for African Americans. Thomas Dartmouth Rice was an African American impersonator who founded blackface-laden minstrel shows. Minstrel shows, made popular from the early 19th to the early 20th century, were "founded on the comic enactment of racial stereotypes." The comedic variety performances would feature white entertainers in blackface who caricatured the singing and dancing of slaves. 5 African-American men wearing tuxedos carry a coffin and a Here Lies Jim Crow sign down the middle of a street as a demonstration against Jim Crow segregation laws. Credit: Getty  Rice played as the fictional Jim Crow, a caricature of a clumsy, dimwitted black enslaved man. Rice claimed to have first created the character after witnessing an elderly black man singing a tune called Jump Jim Crow in Louisville, Kentucky. Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States after the Civil War. The laws were enforced for decades and legally ended in the 1960s when then-President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. The legal principle of "separate but equal" racial segregation was extended to public facilities, transportation, schools, restaurants, restrooms, drinking fountains, and more. 5 Drinking fountain for colored men in a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City Credit: Getty  President Woodrow Wilson initiated the segregation of federal workplaces in 1913. Facilities for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to facilities for white Americans. Tucker Carlson has called businesses that demand their customers are vaccinated "medical Jim Crow." Referring to the racist Jim Crow laws that were finally ended by the Civil Rights movement, Carlson said: "Pretty much everybody agreed that segregation was the worst thing this country ever did." "Forcing certain categories of citizens into separate lesser accommodations barring them from public places, treating them like lepers, untouchable, that was completely immoral and wrong. Medical Jim Crow has come to America. If we still had water fountains, the unvaccinated would have separate ones.  5 Tucker Carlson jabs at businesses requiring customers to be vaccinated in move he calls medical Jim Crow Credit: Fox News  Most of us strongly agreed [segregation was wrong]. "Imagine our confusion today, looking out across the country, the very same people, literally the very same, [who] just the other day told us that segregation was immoral, are now enforcing segregation.  Carlson claimed American businesses were trying to punish people for sin to find out who has obeyed" the Covid recommendations. If were going to make the unvaccinated sit in their own unfashionable little section at MLB games, thats going to make for some pretty embarrassing photographs sometimes, Tucker continued. 5 A woman at an anti-vax protest displays a protest sign reading 'Medical Jim Crow' Credit: Polaris  The new segregation looks a lot like the old segregation. And we wonder how theyre going to explain that, he said, after playing a CNN clip saying white people were more hesitant to get the vaccine. Most read in News Live Blog TRAGIC LOSS Porn star found dead in motorhome at just 27 years old NO GO, JOE Judge halts Biden's 'racist' $4B Covid relief program for farmers of color 'ARM UP, GET GUNS' Lara Trump urges border residents to 'take matters into their own hands' REAL TIME RANT Maher says masks are for 'morons' & slams Hart's 'white power' comments Latest TRAGIC LOSS Cops investigate 'apparent suicide' of TV anchor, 45, who wrote Clinton expos 'TARGETED' KILLING Son & mom shot dead in yard after he was charged with teen's 2019 death  White Republican men are dangerous, and they can sit at the back of the bus. In fact, they can walk. They shouldnt even be allowed in public buildings, Tucker added. Thats a story you keep hearing, you just heard it in very clear terms. No group in America is more likely to turn down the vaccine than White Republican men.  Back in April, Carlson repeatedly emphasized that he is not anti-vax and insisted that "this show has been adamantly pro-vaccine."