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Civil Rights
Civil Rights is about equality. Civil Rights means everyone is treated equally: Men, woman, blacks and white. Declaration
of Independence
is a document that talks about "men being created equally". The Declaration of Independence states "that people have the right to alter or abolish a government that has
become destructive to its ends". It is also people's right to institute a new government, organizing their powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. " Have We Overcome?" is a article by Rachel L. Swarns about Barack Obama's presidency. Obama being elected for president shows anybody can make it somewhere. Even though racism hasn't ended, it probably went down. We still haven't achieved equality in this country. There also having been a Hispanic president. A lot has been done for racism. Almost everybody gets treated equally. But what has to improve is people. The way a person talks or dresses doesn't describe how the person acts. People just look at other people and start thinking something about the person not knowing from what family the person comes or how he/she lives. People also judge by race. Obama's election will affect the USA and many other countries. People's race or color doesn't mean anything and doesn't describe a person. Anybody can make it anywhere.
In Bill Cosby's speech, "Pound
Cake Speech", Cosby talks about parenting and how the world is changing. In the story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, people have equality but is a little passed the line. People have the same rights as others but if someone is smarter then someone else, in some kind of way, they make the smarter person the same as the rest. For example, there were ballerinas dancing with masks on, but they had masks on because they were more prettier then other girls. They wanted to make everybody so equal that they had to hide people's beauty so nobody can feel like they are more or less of a person. The Forerunner poets' poems on Civil Rights talk about how people get to wear mask hiding their eyes and cheeks. Is a mask that grins and lies? Lies about how they feel and how look or act. In a dream deferred, a person that has a dream that they can't have or do because they can't go somewhere or do something they have to do before they accomplish their dream. People have to postpone their dreams. Some poems predict that is going to be hard for some people to accomplish their dreams or have something somebody else don't. Some of their predictions are realized. People are getting robbed for something they have. Now, anybody can go anywhere but the people there might stare at you for being there. The obituary of John Hope Franklin shows how civil rights was achieved during his life. When he was younger, there was a lot of events happening on his town. And even though people were racist, Dr. Franklin still went to school and got his PhD. He was also professors in universities. He taught at Cambridge University in England; Harvard; Cornell; the University of Wisconsin; the University of Hawaii and other institution. He also got awarded by Bill Clinton with Medal of Freedom, and still couldn't escape the legacy of discrimination. A woman at a Washington club asked him to fetch her coat, mistaking him for an attendant, and a man at his hotel had handed him car keys and told him to get his car. Civil rights is still maintained because he is a historian. People read his biographies and books and people keep that in mind. Black people are now professors at universities and more. On Feb 24, President Obama gave a speech to the Congress addressing civil rights, equality, and obligation to all citizens. This speech connects to the Bill Cosby "Pound Cake Speech" because Obama talks about education and the drop out rate in the country. President Obama talks about equality when he states that college is now affordable for nearly seven million more students. President Obama don't just want people to graduate from high school, he also wants them to go to college. He wants parents to read to their children because children's education must begin at home. President Obama also wants to start creating tax-free universal savings accounts for all Americans. Obama addresses "Their resolve must be our inspiration. Their concerns must be our cause. And we must show them and all our people that we are equal to the task before us", by "their" he means students. Students should all be treated equal.
We are still in civil rights battles. People don't get treated equally even though there's no such thing as slaves. Black farmers don't get treated equally as the other farmers. Black farmers don't get as much support as others. John Boyd is a black farmer that traveled just to be heard. Traveled 3 1/2 hours just so people can hear him about his opinion. He is a man that fought for the rights of black farmers so loans can be granted.
We can have a perfect world without racism or civil rights issues but is going to be hard for people to let go of the past. In the past there were slaves and now there
is not. People still under estimate other people by their appearance. For us to have a perfect world, we have to stop that "judging by the looks" thing. In modern cultures,
peoples tend to be divided into upper and lower classes.
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Governments with long term abuses and usurpations, can be overthrown. Tyranny will not be allowed and for those actions, citizens can provide new
guards for their future security.
There is a 50% drop out rate and some wear an orange suit. Cosby states
"they opened the doors, they gave us the right", by "they" he means NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). In the Brown V. Board of Education,
there were kids who fought for their education. Black kids got killed for trying to get an education. The ones in schools were getting treated differently and now that we are
all treated equally. Now there are kids that don't go to school, that are out in the streets, and even wearing and orange suit.
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However, before the relatively recent agricultural revolution, humanity existed in primarily hunter-gatherer societies.
Everybody was equal and everyone did the same thing. Segregation still happens in North Carolina. A school in Wayne County,N.C., called Goldsboro High is imbalance do to the
fact that black students have a high population and they mostly poor. They fail to provide students in that zone with equal educational opportunities. I surely think we can't
have a perfect world while having apartheid, segregation and uncivil rights actions. People just tend to judge people by appearance or by color and that will never change. We
can find equality, and have civil rights, but others will still think they need more attention or think they can do more then others. Which is true, money wise. But people can
do what other people can do they just have to take the opportunity and work for it.