Reflection

What did I learned this lesson? That’s a good question. Well I’m going to start by saying that this lesson was all about people fighting for what they believe was the best for them. That they didn’t back down but just keep going forward to get what they wanted. I learned that every not just black people fight for equality but there were more and that my own race Mexican Americans fought to get where we are right now, like Cesar Chavez a farm worker that wanted better working conditions for his people. And there was a lot of people fighting for acceptance like disable people, gay or lesbians, and many more. That there was leaders that were fighting for their own people to get a better life, and that they had their followers that stood next to them fighting for an objective. But most important way to fight back is using non-violence, like MLK, Cesar Chavez, Gandhi used to motivate their people. And in this lesson I learned things that I didn’t knew and now I know about those warriors that fought for their freedom, the acceptance of others, and against discrimination, but all of them fought for equality. And finally that violence results on more violence. That Non-violence can resolve any major problem.

America still struggle with some problems that have to do with equality/equity. These problems are reflected on our society we live on. These problems are shown on schools, stores, and other places. There are places that hire more guys because it’s a guy’s job and there is no equity for women to be hired. Other problem of equity it’s that students not white are been less at any college, but to reach equality colleges should help minority’s to get that education. And then there is so many people that are immigrants have no equal rights as a citizen does and that’s a major conflict that the gov’t can’t make it equal for all. This is how America after many years has still struggles with equality.

The way Civil Rights were built has influence many people to protest in different way using non-violence to get a point across. The way MLK, Cesar Chavez and others protested using non-violence has influence other like people on colleges that protested to get their point across. And they don’t harm anyone just like MLK teach their followers because violence results on violence. So that’s the way civil rights connect to the present.