Write An Essay On Johnny Reeves

Johnny Reeves was really not a good person. Johnny reeves was a preacher for the KKK and he didn’t have any respect for African American people. Respect; a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements. In this story Johnny was never a witness but he always reacted to everything that happened. I argue that Johnny Reeves was very rude toward all people because he never learns to accept African Americans for who they really are. He also didn’t have any respect for anyone, even white people. Lastly he was in the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and they KKK doesn’t care how anyone feels.
Johnny Reeves never learns to accept black people for who they are. He was always outraged when he heard of white and black people working together. “some preacher down south has himself a following of coloreds and whites, together. they trail after him from town to town, forgetting their duties to home” (Witness page 14). He isn’t too worried if black people kill other black people because he doesn’t care about them. “we can take care of the problems at home and down there in harlem, the negro problem will settle itself” (Witness page 16). He talks as though having anything to do with the black people or people who aren’t in the
Johnny was the preacher for the KKK. “tapped by the exalted dragons. i, neighbor, led the klan in opening prayer.” (Witness page 70). He always talks about how the klan is very holy even though they are not. “the gathering prayed with me, neighbor, in the summer morning with the bees humming in the clover. they prayed with me as i declared the klan a movement of god” (Witness page 70). He also always thought that the klan was an act of god and that god loved each every one of them. “an act of god, neighbor, to express the lord’s anger that one of his special children had fallen” (Witness page 68). Throughout the whole story Johnny never changed very