Essay On The Civil Rights Movement
1964 was the year the civil rights act passed, it was just the beginning for African Americans. The civil rights act made amazing breakthroughs aiding the prevention of discrimination of people because of their race, color, religion, sex, or national origin basically giving equal access to everything despite certain character traits. These rights were being enforced by the early 1970’s. But just because a law is enforced, does not make it the problem solver for an issue as big as racism. No law can solve a person’s mentality even if it is as horrible as some, racism is born within one’s opinion. With recent protests and several movements, racism has become one of the biggest epidemics of our day.
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Martin Luther King Jr. once said "The basic thing I want you to see is that while this period (the protest phase of the civil rights movement) represented a frontal attack on the doctrine and practice of white supremacy, it did not defeat the monster of racism....The roots of racism are very deep in this country." I believe that racism is often an excuse for pessimism, racism is one of the worst diseases in America. Racism affects your way of viewing people by believing in dense stereotypes and restricts you from all the opportunities you could have had by being nice to whatever person racism is holding you back from. The civil rights were supposed to create a safe environment for African Americans, an environment with the same opportunities as other races and it did have a great impact with that but this dilemma is not completely resolved. We live in a world where one of my good friends Kenon, was pulled over when walking home from school for no reason.They proceeded to throw everything out of his backpack cracking his school laptop and then handcuffing him for being smart when he was questioning his rights. An environment America set out to create in the 60s can’t even be followed by the government itself. There’s a lot wrong with America but a whole epidemic of movements should not be hard to follow especially if you are working for the
I strongly believe that there is a difference …show more content…
Martin Luther King Jr. once said "The basic thing I want you to see is that while this period (the protest phase of the civil rights movement) represented a frontal attack on the doctrine and practice of white supremacy, it did not defeat the monster of racism....The roots of racism are very deep in this country." I believe that racism is often an excuse for pessimism, racism is one of the worst diseases in America. Racism affects your way of viewing people by believing in dense stereotypes and restricts you from all the opportunities you could have had by being nice to whatever person racism is holding you back from. The civil rights were supposed to create a safe environment for African Americans, an environment with the same opportunities as other races and it did have a great impact with that but this dilemma is not completely resolved. We live in a world where one of my good friends Kenon, was pulled over when walking home from school for no reason.They proceeded to throw everything out of his backpack cracking his school laptop and then handcuffing him for being smart when he was questioning his rights. An environment America set out to create in the 60s can’t even be followed by the government itself. There’s a lot wrong with America but a whole epidemic of movements should not be hard to follow especially if you are working for the