Throughout our great nation’s history, much has changed especially in the area of civil rights. Early in our history the owning of slaves was legal and was socially accepted (in fact it was a sign of a higher class), but as time went on, our nation made great progress and moved to outlaw slavery which set us on a path of freedom for all. Examining where we were, from a civil rights perspective, throughout our history can be quite fascinating. Going back to the time period of when Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is exceptionally interesting. Although it was post-Civil War there were still many anti-slavery governments throughout the South and the federal government had to place officers in parts of the South
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In fact, our country still needs a civil rights movement. While there has been growth in many of the issues back in 1963, such as poverty, unemployment and racial disparities in education we still aren’t near perfect in any of those categories. According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1967 33.9% of all black families lived in poverty in comparison to 11% of the rest of America. While this numbered has improved, it’s down to 27% (11% for the rest of America has not changed) it’s still far off from the rest of the country. The unemployment rate for white Americans as of today is 4.3% while amongst blacks it’s more than double, 9%. These numbers have got to make us stop and think. While we thought with eh election of President Obama that we were on the verge of ending racism in America, these numbers seem to show us that we were sadly way off. In fact, while it has improved it isn’t anywhere near a solved issue. This is something we still need to be focusing on, civil rights movements are still needed today! Unfortunately, the election of Donald Trump doesn’t seem to be helping this issue. While I do agree with many of the ideas verbalized by the president-elect his attitude towards minorities can be a potential and probably already is an issue to minorities. It is a much harder task to eradicate racism when the general consensus is that our next leader doesn’t feel the
In fact, our country still needs a civil rights movement. While there has been growth in many of the issues back in 1963, such as poverty, unemployment and racial disparities in education we still aren’t near perfect in any of those categories. According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1967 33.9% of all black families lived in poverty in comparison to 11% of the rest of America. While this numbered has improved, it’s down to 27% (11% for the rest of America has not changed) it’s still far off from the rest of the country. The unemployment rate for white Americans as of today is 4.3% while amongst blacks it’s more than double, 9%. These numbers have got to make us stop and think. While we thought with eh election of President Obama that we were on the verge of ending racism in America, these numbers seem to show us that we were sadly way off. In fact, while it has improved it isn’t anywhere near a solved issue. This is something we still need to be focusing on, civil rights movements are still needed today! Unfortunately, the election of Donald Trump doesn’t seem to be helping this issue. While I do agree with many of the ideas verbalized by the president-elect his attitude towards minorities can be a potential and probably already is an issue to minorities. It is a much harder task to eradicate racism when the general consensus is that our next leader doesn’t feel the