Many people give up on activism, especially when it has to do with race because they feel as though they are not guilty of being racist. When they feel that too many people will disagree with them and their opinions or simply not pay any attention to it, they give up and move on. What we have to realize is that forr those the activists that don't give up, the outcome of their hard work can be very rewarding. While thinking about activism and how it related to racism in the 1960s. I started to think of racism and where it is today, yes, i think it is fair to say that laws on racism and racists acts have come a long way in the past few decades, but are we were we should be yet? I, for one, can say that I unfortunately do not think that racism is dead. In fact, we see it everyday. Whether it is obvious or not, things are done subconsciously that prove racism to still be here in full force. Who is to blame for this? Is it the schools? Is it the media? Whoever is to blame, this is something that has been an issue for years past and continues to haunt us. I think that it is fair to say that, until we stand up and make it obvious that we will not stand for racial acts, racial slurs, or anything of the kind, we are all to blame in one way or the other for racism still existing in America today. Let's stand up and do something about this!
I recently watched the Movie "The Help" in theaters and was amazed at how moved I was by it. For those of you that have not had the chance to see it, the movie is set in Mississippi in the decade of the 1960s. It does a great job of shwing how it was to be a black women in those times and how many hardshipsone had togo through. It angeres me to see black women be treated as though they were animals. It was as if people did not think that they deserved to have the same rights and luxuries as other races in this era were fortuante enough to have. It really made me think of activism and how important it is to stand up for what you believe is right. After seeing this, it really made me think; does racism still exist today? Unfortuantely, the sad reality of it is that it exist in today's society more than we would like to know. Yes there is still racism. Some have forgotten what United... States of America means. We all have suffered injustice, no matter what color. We have all suffered lost, no matter what color. We all need to rise for justice with all colors. Humanity and the meaning of being human, has been forgotten.
Racism is a ver srong word to use I have to say, but there have been a lot of unfairness and discriminations throughout th years in America. Many people know that racism has occured in the past when African Americans were treated unfairly being segregated from the opposite race. but most of that changed when people began to fight for equal rights having boycotts, ow tha theyprotests, and consistently having those individuals who were racist know that they deserved equal rights as well as they did. And until they recieve justice they were going to have their voices heard to recieve justice. Many races converse with other people of there race about another race. Many races talk about other races, and most of the time its not positive.
An article I read was " In the aftermath of Trayvon's death, more famalies are having " the talk,' teaching some sons to be aware of their race, avoid confrontations with authority figures, and to remain calm in situations even if their rights are violated. " As most of you may know a young African American teenage boy named Trayvon Martin was gun down bt a caucasian man nmed Zimmerman because he was walking in a suburban neighborhood, and suppisedly he was acting of supicious matter. Now his family is fighting for justice for their son, but now the talk in African American homes is avoid confrontations with authority figures and try and remain cooperative when you know for a fact that yur rights are being violated. It's amazing how certain races have to act a certain way when there with authority, when authority is supposed to keep us safe.
After reading articles and researching materials regarding this topic, I've come to a conclusion that racism still exist here in America, but its not so expressed as before in the past. But we as the people need to come together and end this, its been done in the past and i can be done now. Certain colored people should not have to act a certain way when being stopped by authority. So we the people need to end this we're all the same race, the human race.