Let's All Be Friends

The Civil Rights Movement did so much for African Americans to ensure them equality. This is a part of our history that we will never forget. The big lesson learned from this is that we are all equal no matter who we are or where we come from. Every event that happened in the Civil Rghts Movement was important but there were a few that stood out more than others. For instance Brown vs. Board of Education ended segregation in schools. This also inspired public desegragation so people created sit-ins during the non-violent protest. These sit-ins made the businesses demand public desegragation so they didn't lose any more money. Another important event was the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ended segregation on buses. All of these ended segreagtion and gave African Americans the equality they deserved.

America struggles with a lot of these kind of issues today. I think we have a big problem with institutional racism. The problem is that we don't even recognize that it is happening right in front of us. Some examples of it would be mainly careless jokes, like joking around with friends. We joke and don't think it hurts anyone. I myself do this because I don't think that I'm hurting anyone but I've learned that some people do take offense to these little racial comments. This will be hard to overcome since what we say is unintentional. Some may be on purpose but mostly are unintentional. A lot also comes from racial profiling. We tend to judge people on their race a lot. For example one might say that the only A+ in class was earned by the Asian because they're asian, or the robbery was done by the black guy because they are African American, or maybe even the richest guy is white because they're white. This stuff happens everyday and I don't think it will stop anytime soon since it is unintentional.

What happened as a result of the Civil Rights Movement ties in with how we live today. We are all equal and desegregated. If none of those major events happened we wouldn't all be in the same school and malls or stores. We understand but maybe not fully, that we are all human despite our race. We all are friends now and work together to accomplish our goals. Its good that we have different races in our society because we all have our own qualities and tradition. Everything now pretty much blends together as American, and thats what we all are.