Super Heroes: Beating Down Evil

     My cousin, Brayden and I like to dress up like Superheroes.  

We imagine we have super-powers, and we do lots of good deeds and help beat down evil and let good win. 

"In due season, we shall reap, if we do not lose heart." 

Galatians 6:9

I think this verse means that if we keep believing in God,
 and we don't give up (lose heart), 
will overcome 

anything in life.   

Our enemies may be nicer, 
our schoolwork

will come easy to us, and we will have friends. 

Our life won't be as Hard as it used to be,
 because we will grow close to Jesus by praying,

 listenting to music that praises Him, 
and reading more about the Bible. 

America's Treasure: Civil Rights (my report for school)

Source:  Buzz Feed News

     Civil Rights are equal rights for the civilians of America. 

 This is important! 

I am studying civil rights in my Social Studies Class right now. 

Civil Rights are for all races, and all the kinds of people who are alive in this country.  I am glad we have civil rights because they support people who have disabilities.  The meaning of the civil rights is found in our Constitution, in the statement, “All men are created equal.”  Everybody has the same rights in this country. 

       Discrimination used to be big in this country because we had slavery, and the poor black people got ripped from their homes in Africa to come here and work in this country.  People said blacks were 3/5ths human.  That angers me.  I have many black friends.  I hope that if I were living back in that time, I would help them escape from slavery. 

Source:  Buzz Feed News

     Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white man in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama.  Martin Luther King, Jr. led peaceful protests, and gave a speech that helped to make him famous.  President John F. Kennedy made discrimination against black people illegal in 1963.    But we still have discrimination in our country.  I see discrimination all the time in my life.  In Soccer, the Captains pick the best players first.  The worst players are left to be picked last.  Usually, the worst soccer players get put in a place where they barely play at all.  Lots of places discriminate against people because they are different, even though it is illegal.  Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 5:48).  If we did this all the time, we wouldn't need laws for Civil Rights!

Source:  MarandaHawthorne.org 

      Another place I see discrimination is in business.  Just because a person is a little bit different, he doesn’t get raises or move up in the business.  I am talking about someone’s accent, or their looks, or their clothes.  These things should not be used to judge if they get a raise. 

     At my Summer Camp this past summer, there was a kid who was very different from the others.  He had Autism.  The other kids said, “I don’t want to play with him, he’s gross.   He is a cry baby, and he is always in trouble.”  But I tried to be nice to him.  I tried my hardest to be a good friend to him.  It was pretty hard, because he was really eccentric.  Some of my friends even put pressure on me to NOT spend time with the different kids.  They said I wasn’t cool anymore.  I had a lot of talks with the Counselors, and with my parents about all this.  In the end, he got sent away from the Camp, and had to go to a special school in another town.  I felt really sad about that.  I did not get to say goodbye to him. 

These kids have Down's Syndrome and
live in Honduras.  I send money to their school
to help with supplies and stuff they need. 

     In conclusion, Civil Rights are rights that prevent discrimination, but not always.  People are not treated equally all the time.  I am not even great at treating people equally.   Sometimes certain people get to me, and I don’t want to be around them.   I don’t want to give them a second chance.  I get mad at them more easily that other people.  John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. both were assassinated for trying to end discrimination.  So you can see that we still need improve on treating people equally in this country.