Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Civil Rights, all we hail

According to the Civil Rights Freedom Movement, there aren't much lessons applied to our society today. But there is indeed major successes that occurred between the time civil leaders fight for our rights. According to Martin Luther King Jr. 's most famous and educative seventeen minute long "I have a dream Speech" and Malcom X's "Ballot or the Bullet speech", America is still struggling among segregation and equity. Both leaders fought to end this moment of segregation, because in their eyes, its a view of humans treating others without equity, equality, and within the pursuit of happiness. However these successes that were brought up changed America and citizens begin to stop underestimating racism.

Successes that were brought up involved the Civil Right Acts of 1964 and 1968, both being passed in Congress. The Civil Right Acts of 1964 banned discrimination inemployment and the government has the rights to protect all people's rights. The Civil Right Acts of 1968 prohibited discrimination and lynching. With these acts both being passed, America is more of an independent and free state, which is a remarkable sign that allowed the negros to become less picked upon from the whites. The voting right acts of 1965, a major and powerful act in the mid 60's, eliminated all voter literacy tests and it enabled federal examiners to register voters. There would never been a seperation of whites and negros among all voting rights.

However, we are still facing racial segregation today. In example, Chinese and Mexicans are still being seperated in jail. Segregation has to stop because no one would achieve fair equity that way and those who havent been treating others fairly should reconsider for those who gone through this same situation. America is still going through segregation today and the most recent case among segregation was the time in San Francisco when a chinese lady refused to give a portion of the spot where she was standing in the bus to a black lady. I feel overwhelmed by this type of racial injustice regardless of who is invovled.

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