Glen Echo Amusement Park Case Study

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I am writing to Glen Echo Amusement Park. I chose this position because of the discrimination towards Clifton Davis because of his race.

Your establishment should allow Clifton Davis to participate in the actions held at Glen Echo Amusement Park because of the inequality you are allowing to appear when you deny his ability of participation. This is unjust because of the contradictions to the Declaration of Independence. I realize that you may consider the African American race to be a lower in standard and class, I also realize the stereotyped African American influence that is not wanted in your business, however The Declaration of Independence says ,”... all men are created equal with unalienable rights …,” and though this doesn’t seem
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The color of his skin was the only reason he was not allowed to enter, this reason is extremely rude and an irrational reason for not allowing the entrance for a customer. Clifton Davis ,and also other of his race and other races, should be allowed entrance as long as they are a customer that have the full entrance fee for entry and do not disrupt any action of the employees, other customers, or any service held at Glen Echo Amusement Park. Also, though you have many reasons for the segregation of African Americans and other “colored” races and believing it is acceptable, it is not for a list of reasons: Not all “colored” races are truly what they are stereotyped to be, another reason is that the Gettysburg Address states ,”But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.” which shows an example we must follow, it shows that no matter what we do we can’t destroy all that these men have worked for, or that we can’t lose what they have worked …show more content…
The continuous mistreatment to colored people is one that people of this nation should not follow through on for more generations because it is a disgusting, mean, intolerant way of social segregation that mentally and psychically scars many of the colored children of this time and all who have to live through. According to the I Have a Dream quote by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. ,“Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"” means all of the colored want to be united and make everyone have the rights to freedom, though some “colored” people are selfish and try to find freedom for only themselves or try to take advantage of the discrimination of the current time but, most want freedom for all that do not feel kindness from the public or get true rights as this nation states. This discrimination makes our nation one that is made on hypocrisy, and not the truth that it was advised. It

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