Why did some jim crow laws exempt some blacks?

Question

I read the article my teacher gave me and still don't get it!

http://www.geocities.com/chocolate_tokisa/jimcrow.html

I added the page to geocities highligting were it say exemptions this was the answer I wrote down, what do you think?

The Laws had exemptions for some blacks, who were nurses, or servants, charter buses, Rail road employee’s in some states prisoners; I am guessing could sit with the white person they were boarding the bus with.

Answer 1

I think that what the law meant was that certain persons were exempt in the course of their duty. For example a Black nurse accompanying a White invalid must necessarily travel in a White compartment. The nurse was not give the complete right to travel in any compartment on her day off. It just meant that she could do it when nursing. Similarly Black prisoners were often escorted shackled to White officers. They could not be expected to travel in another compartment. Lunatics also would have to be escorted.

Answer 2

Could you give us a summary of that article? Does it refer to the treatment of "colored", that is, people of mixed white and black ancestry?

Answer 3

Sweetie, this is what we call "TRIBALISM OR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION!!!"