Really, Jim Crow?

When on the topic of segregation, I am always disturbed and astounded by the cruelty of the whites and the way they treated blacks as if they weren't even human. After reading the Jim Crow laws, I am not only disturbed but embarrassed.  It seems as though the Southern state governments went out of their way to find every single establishment and daily task in society and make it impossible for blacks to take part in. Were the lawmakers really so insecure, afraid, and inhumane that they would make dead African Americans perish in a lesser, separate burial ground? Or force the blind, who can't even visualize the superficial difference between their race and that of the person next to them, to be treated and cared for in separate buildings?  Is it really SUCH an offense towards John, a white fisherman, for Joe,black fisherman, to be minding his own business fishing for his daily catch of trout on the opposite side of the lake? And was it really necessary for the lawmakers to include this rule, as well as the exact distance apart two segregated entrances to a circus should be, on their list of laws that are oh-so beneficial to a respectable Southern society? The Jim Crow Laws were not just morally wrong, they were ridiculously anal and unjustified. Not only did these Southerners need to get a heart, they need to get a life.