Lgbt Rights Debate

. They faced harassment even deadly violence for being solely themselves. This caused uproar against most LGBT’s worldwide. If we were to rewind history we would gain the knowledge of how the racial identity, gender, age, ethnicity or religion, of people back then were also underhandedly mistreated. In the nineteenth century African-Americans were not considered as people. Instead of people, the white men and women treated them as pieces of property. Even when slavery was abolished, African-American men and women still could not own property, vote for their own leaders, or go anywhere the white men were allowed to go. They underwent unpleasant wars and beatings only to be treated no differently when they were supposed to be free.
But how did they overcome these disastrous stipulations? Years of strategizing and petitioning through large cities, the LGBT’s fought for change to make same-sex marriage legal. The Supreme Court decided to honor them and make the decision in June. According to Caller Times, “if the court legalizes gay marriage, it won't be a marker for how far constitutional law has evolved. It'll be more a measure of the advancement of human enlightenment.” On June 26, 2015 the rights for same-sex marriage were approved and it reformed
Reverend and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, started the affirmation of trying to let black people rise above their discrimination. He expressed his faith that one-day whites and blacks would stand together as equals, and there would be harmony between the races. The violence against blacks in the segregated South will no longer be a dispute. The Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s were great breakthroughs. African-Americans legal rights were granted leading to equivalence. African-Americans today now have the opportunity to become who/what they want and strive for excellence (ex. free access to books and job opportunities). The white men can’t put them down any