The Brown decisions of the United States Supreme Court (1954) proclaim that segregated public schools for white and black students are unlawful. This discourages black students like you from finishing college or high school which led them into low level, segregated careers and restricted their contact with whites. In (1939) Dr. Kenneth Clark an African American educator and professor tested that segregated schools in America has affected African American children’s views on themselves and stereotypes by using dolls. Two dolls had pink skin and two had brown. White and African American students both chose the brown doll as being inferior and bad. This shows that segregation made African American children regard themselves as inferior to whites. (abagond.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/the-clark-doll-experiment/). You shouldn’t think of yourselves that way. Why should we be looked at as the bad and inferior one? Why should we be treated like this when we are all the same?
People who would disagree with my position mostly whites would say that whites should play a minor role in helping minorities and blacks achieve their civil rights. Many whites have come to believe that African Americans have tolerated and sometimes have enjoyed our position as second-class citizens. They are completely wrong. We do not enjoy and put up with our positions as lower quality citizens. This is because they are white they don’t care what others think unless we all take a stand. “The more we give in, the more we compiled with the kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became” Rosa Parks [www.rosaparksfacts.com/rosa-parks-civil-rights-movement.php] you have to take a stand for what you believe in. We should be able to live in America without people judging us everywhere we go. Everyone should be treated the same way. Is this what you believe?
Wouldn’t you like to live a life where everyone has equal rights? Wouldn’t you like to live
in a country without segregation, without segregated schools, buses and public facilities? Without having to worry about the Klu Klux Klan burning down our houses or murdering our loved one. We wouldn’t have to worry about anything. We would get our freedom back. This is what our lives would be like if the civil rights movement was successful. I need you to help me fight segregation in our country, we have been fighting and giving in for too long and now is the time to take a stand.
"If Negroes did not ride the buses, they could not operate. Three-fourths of the riders are Negroes, yet we are arrested, or have to stand over empty seats. If we do not do something to stop these arrests, they will continue. The next time it may be you, or your daughter, or mother."- Handbill December 1955 (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/wpcmontgomery.html) I stood up for the Montgomery bus incident because I was tired of giving in. I need your support. African Americans were required to sit in the back of the bus, because the front was for whites only. I refused to give up a seat to a white passenger. I got arrested for violating the law. “I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move. Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it." Rosa Parks [http://www.rosaparksfacts.com/rosa-parks-civil-rights-movement.php]. If no one took a stand and fight the law the movement would go nowhere. I was willing to go to jail to stand up for my rights to show people that we African Americans are sick and tired of the segregation in our country. I ask of you to do the same. We don’t have to obey the law that we didn’t take part in creating especially if the law was made to keep us where we are – inferior.
We should all do something other than just sit around and watch the whites happily treat us badly. Us African Americans have fought for civil rights for a very long time and now is the time to end segregation. “Despite the violence and crime in our society, we should not let fear overwhelm us. We must remain strong." () I encourage you boys and girls to not stop trying to do the right thing if it even if it means breaking the law. We have to stop being uncomfortable of being African Americans. It is very important for you to be involved in the movement than to regret it later in the future.