Essay On Acceptance In America

To be heard, but not followed; to be free, but still a slave. Two things that have corrupted America from moving forward, to be stuck in the past when we should have clearly been seeking the future. And why? Why has it caused so much pain and suffering? Why have we let it influence the lives of the future generation? Simply stated, it’s because we are creatures who are selfish, we think of feeding ourselves before the thought of others can begin to fog our minds. But most importantly, these problems have risen over the plain fact that we do not accept. We do not accept others who are different, other’s whose ideas impose to shatter and shape the world around us for the better. We become deaf to reason when what we’ve known our whole lives balances on the edge of existence, threatening to leave our presence. That is why our primary and foremost important responsibility to America is to accept. No, it’s not an easy thing to do, and above all else not the answer to all the conflicts bestowed on our doorstep. It can help us stay on the right path; it can keep us from derailing from what we have encountered in the past. Acceptance is the very opposite of the rejection we have brought to the light of others, plunging them into darkness for the sake of ourselves, while without …show more content…
Blacks were free, they are equal to us, yet the Jim Crow laws stated differently. “WHITE PASSENGERS ONLY.” Why could we not accept them, they had not done anything to us that couldn’t be outweighed by what we had done to them? Again, it comes back to the mere fact that acceptance to us does not come easy. But again, there are individuals we speak for those unheard. Martin Luther King Jr., and John F. Kennedy, who like Lincoln, addressed that every man was equal, fought again for change and acceptance throughout the