I believe there were many lessons learned from the civil rights movement. For example, through out all the protests we learned about during this unit, I found most groups went with a non-violent protest. Non- violent protesting seemed to more affective than using force and fighting. I also learned that there really were no equal rights for more than just blacks; it involved Native Americans, Asian people, and even disabled people, and many more. I learned about Malcolm X for the first time and the differences that he had from MLK. I always thought that they were the same and had the same concepts, but Malcolm X was more violent, and MLK didn’t believe in using violence.
Today America still struggles with achieving equity and equality. Whether it’s on purpose or not, today people still discriminate against all races, and use stereotypes to judge one another. For example; if people today are as equal as our government says we are, then it wouldn’t be more likely for a black man to go to jail longer than a white man. More women would get paid equally as men if they worked they same amount of hours on the same job. Today if you go to school, and you’re Asian for example, honestly people are going to expect you to be smart. It’s just a stereo type that happened to stick over time.
The ideas of the Civil Rights movement are connected to the present because today we still use the same protest methods that they used during the civil rights movement. A popular one is non- violent protesting, and recently I’ve seen people protesting non-violently in Oakland. It reminded me of Project C, how people were protesting non- violently and the police used force against them for no reason. The same thing happened in Oakland to innocent people who were fighting for what they thought was right. So I don’t think everything has changed from the Civil Rights time period. Many things have improved but not completely altered, and its sad that those things cant be fixed.
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