I believe that these statistics help argue for his petition. As the President listens on to this, I find it hard to imagine that he could hear the massive amount of his citizens being lynched and be content with that number. I think that these 10,000 Americans act as an eye opener that hopefully would bring about change (in at least policy towards lynching) in the White House.

My immediate thoughts went straight to the reading about George White's farewell address. In it, he argued about the potential the South and the United States as a whole had when both races came together and worked towards a common goal. Immediately here, Washington starts a call to action for both races to think about the potential they have working together and to use those thoughts a vision for the future.

This is evident in multiple parts of the court cases. One main point is when it discusses how Plessy is only 1/8th African American, which cannot be used against him in law yet Louisiana continued to argue against this. The state courts were inconsistent between their rulings and the rulings of the Constitution which should allow Plessy to be treated equal in the regards to his race.

In the middle of the first section, I having a hard time understanding it. He talks about how "the next morning... [he'll] be blazing up again." I read this as his persistence to keep moving forward. He talks about earlier his time in Mississippi where he is making the best of the worst situation. Is this that same type of persistence to keep moving forward even though no matter where he goes, they will "Jump Jim Crow?"