The Difference Between The Reconstruction Era And The Civil Rights Movement?

February 7th, 2016 there was a stabbing in Cazenovia, a student of ethnic diversity was stabbed behind subway around 2am. On the 9th, a racially slurred, inappropriate, and hurtful Craigslist response was posted online that went viral within the community and many black people expressed they have not felt safe since. The following day, the campus held a dialogue circle to discuss race and diversity, sadly the majority of people who attended were ethnic minorities and the few white people in attendance were mostly student leaders. In class, Thursday, February 18th, we discussed civil rights, social rights, political rights, and slavery. In lieu of recent events and our class discussion on Thursday it is important to discern the difference between …show more content…
Laws cannot regulate attitudes, which is why even long after the Civil Rights Acts were passed, many states did not enforce them immediately, it took time. This is why there were still hate crimes. Further, even though affirmative action has been passed, it has been shown and widely told that when there are two of the same exact resumes circulated, with two different names, one sounding like a white person’s name, the other sounding like a black person’s name, the resume with a white person’s sounding name will get an interview or call back or job more than the resume with the black …show more content…
Can states and the federal government mandate people “play nice on the playground” like the principal does in school? If no laws are broken, then technically nothing wrong is happening, right? No. At the first dialogue circle students shared their stories of their mistreatment from community members such as cops, judicial meetings conducted by the school, and peers who asked harmful questions. Several students expressed how they felt stereotype, undermined and how others did not believe their successes. Many students explained they came to Cazenovia College to get away from the drama, the shootings, and the racial slurs at home. Freshman expressed their illusions of Cazenovia College as a safe place are quickly crumbling. However, at the end of the dialogue, after everybody had shared, Katie O’Brien spoke up. She said she had heard three main issues and therefore, on the spot, created three subcommittees including education, community relations, and judicial processing and student safety. Yesterday, February 14th, the student body held a second dialogue, one which was much more positive and solution driven – a personnel or office of multi-cultural affairs was added to the original list of three solutions. This past week, Cazenovia College has started to address the issue of fair treatment for students of ethnic minority. Although