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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.
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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!
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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.
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| 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.
