The Importance Of Segregation In America

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They say that all men are created equal, eh? Not everyone believes that, but it is true. All of us, every single human, is the same. An increase of melanin affecting the the skin tone of a human doesn’t make it okay to ridicule or abuse them. People have been told they can’t do things, such as have certain jobs, live in certain places, or have a good education, based on the color of their skin, their nationality, or their religion. This is called segregation. Segregation is wrong, no matter what race or group of people is being segregated. This infringes on their natural, God-given rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Everyone has a right to life. That’s why we’re born, isn’t it? To live? Who cares if one is born different …show more content…
Not every person knows that there were people of color involved in the making of America. They were there. They were smart, kind, helpful and loyal human beings who would work side by side with the other Americans. But nobody really knows this because:
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books, books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, “What is history, but a fable agreed upon?” … By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account. (Brown
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The Revolutionary War was fought, America became free of the British, the Civil War ended, slaves were emancipated, Lincoln died, and then the First World War happened- or so we are told. After the Civil War, not all of the slaves were released immediately. Not all of the freed slaves got what they’d been dreaming of because of white American hostility towards the blacks. Separation happened and became full-on segregation and the blacks were not allowed to do a lot of things the whites were able to do. This persisted until they spoke up about it in the 1960s, almost one hundred years after the Civil War ended. They rallied and people of different races came together to march peacefully and demand their equality. A lot of work and preparation went into this rally, yet they still are not getting the equality they wanted today. Even in America, the land of the free, we are cowards. Cowards who don’t like to be involved with people of different colors and ethnicities. If the doctor or professor is of a different color than most of the patrons, good opinions decrease about that human being, and the patrons may request a different practitioner. If everyone did this, those few non-white Americans who saw an opportunity to change their fates would be left without anyone to practice on, would not earn anything, and would have to get lesser jobs to support them

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