Civil Rights Movement

Throughout this entire unit of The Civil Rights movement, I have learned a lot of how history brings us to where we are at and standing currently today in America. A lot has inspired how modern day world would be like, such as Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. Each leader had it's own way of leading their crowd. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. taught his crowd to love the enemies and people that go against them while Malcolm x did the opposite and said to fight back for their rights. If there was one thing that I learned in this course, it's the ability to speak up for what's right. Martin Luther King Jr fought with love, ended up in jail with thousands of other people, but STILL made a change. My point is that, the ability to speak up and to break the status quo will eventually make a difference. At the end of the day, they all fought for one thing- Equality which is something american's still fight for today.

America struggles on reaching their goal of equality through acceptance. People strive to be accepted and to feel accepted everyday. Institutional Racism and Gay marriage are prime examples of being accepted. For example, when applying for college, if a white girl had a 4.0 and had lots of extra curricular activities and an african american had the same ratio of activities a long with a 4.0, they would pick the colored. This is institutional racism because they are not intentionally picking out their actual personality within but through race. Although the school was just trying to be equal because they tried fitting more colored people into their colleges, it still looks bad upon who and what they're choosing.

Events and the ideas of the Civil Rights Movement are acted on everyday in today's world. For example, the Occupy Protest shows how thousands of protesters peacefully sit on a sidewalk to protest what they believe is right. The action that's going on reminds me of how Martin Luther King Jr peacefully protested and landed in jail whereas the protesters on the Occupy Movement were beat by the police and threatened to leave. They fought for what they believed was right but since the government was corrupted it led to their government fighting back with their own people. By just speaking out and voicing your thoughts and opinions on what you believe, clearly shows tracks of the Civil Rights Movement.