The Civil Rights movement gave the African American population, freedom to live through their future at a much better era in time. The Civil Rights movement opened up a new future for the new generation of children, a better future filled with opportunities.We learned that the civil rights movement ended segregation all across the united states. segregation made the African Americans feel like aliens in a new environment, not being treated fairly, not serviced like the white population. These lessons are gonna be a part of the new and brighter future the African Americans set up for themselves.
Americas struggle for equality has been going on for roughly thirty years. to this day black people still get discriminated through indirect means. for example in schools, blacks are at the bottom of the grades. still considered as the minority. They still struggle with the fact that they are behind school grades or graduate rates. Blacks still strive to be truly equal with the white population. it's what we call Equity. Even though segregation is over and everyone is integrated. we can never erase racism in out society, maybe even the world. Institutional racism is one of the problems we have in America. it is unintentional racism. we don't know that we do this, we just do it anyway. it exists in schools, hospitals etc.
Today the African American population has some connections to present. for example; segregated schools. students themselves segregate each other unconsciously. Different ethnicity's tend to hang out with people from the same ethnicity as their own. therefore segregation is formed without segregation being the goal of these people in the first place.
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I really like how you pointed out the discrimination that still goes on today. Though its not as great as it was in the past, we tend to overlook the fact that it does still go on today.
Your post was pretty good, you pointed out good facts of unconscious racism towards blacks.
i agree that racism is still present in our schools. however there is close to nothing being done about it. if people took the time to help people then the environment would be a lot better.
I don't believe in low test scores being unintentional racism. If that was the case, why am I doing well. The bigger problem, I think, is that people stop trying. There are several opportunities to get help if you struggle, but people don't even try. Rather, we make excuses and say that schools are being racist.
This was actually kind of interesting to read knowing you. You made many great points regarding what the Civil Rights Movement accomplished, but might I add that not all types of segregation occurred. Racism still exists quite strongly even though we may not realize it. I enjoyed your opinions, examples and slight evidence. Many of them raise some debate and that is a good thing.
In my opinion about the 'low test scores' issue that is kind of silly is that there is no need to group us by ethnicity. I don't remember how Mr. Shawn explained it exactly but it is something along the lines that it is expected of that ethnicity due to their group. I do agree with Kyle on the fact that many people really have just stopped trying, but I can't say that because I don't know who 'people' are.
I like how you clearly showed that there are still racism present in our school systems and that there are still discriminating people today. If we as people took the time to find a solution for this problem, rather than over look it, possibly we will be able to stop discrimination in schools.
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