Slowly Changing Future
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963). The conflicts to the basic right and freedoms in a society can be depicted as a battlefield. This battlefield is not like a war that lasted for couple of years but for centuries and may last longer than a centuries more. These battlefield are fought for the freedom of expression and against social intolerance. As for many wars that were fought many years ago. The men and women who fought for the rights they deserve after years and years of being held back from laws limiting their freedom to express themselves as a citizen …show more content…
As for example in film “The Butler” (2013) shows a story of a butler named Cecil Gaines working in the White House as a butler for the presidential office, during his time working aside the president’s administration, Cecil saw many changes through his lifetime and what current events were happening during the Civil Right Movement until up to the point when the first black president is elected in 2009 to be one of the most iconic milestone in the American history. Cecil lived his life in a cotton plantation in Macon, Georgia, by his sharecropping parents. Until one day that changes his life when the owner killed his father and raped his mother whose is forever muted by the incident. He learned how to be house servant and eventually left the farm to find other opportunities elsewhere to which led him to work in a hotel and unexpectedly offered to be working in the White House due to his impressive performance. Cecil observed 34th President Dwight D. Eisenhower grappling with school desegregation, 35th President John F. Kennedy proposing the Civil Rights Act, 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson about to sign the voting rights act and 37th President Richard Nixon plotting against the Black Panther and lastly 40th President Ronald Reagan’s refusal to support sanction against South Africa. Before Cecil resigns, he …show more content…
My father is a good example of going against social intolerance but he did through workmanship than speeches. He kept telling stories about himself working under Walter, Walter was once a racist old men during the times where Native Americans are not the similar status in the North. My father told me that he was always tensed by Walter and discouraged but managed to put up with it. Words like “Go home you and hang out with the other drunk Indians that is all you good at anyways”. My father did not stop working he kept going because he did saw his point of view that most of the people who are Natives were drunk most of the time and the stereotype kept on growing. He kept asking me to this day to break that cycle. Honestly I did not know what that meant at all because I was an arrogant young teenager who did not listen on what he has said. Years of growing up I decided to do much more than staying back home, I decided I wanted to seek more help with my education, so I moved down south for a couple of months. I took this program but there was one man was following the old ideal system that all natives drink but I told him I did not drink nor become what others thought of me. It came to me that I did not want to be treated differently because of what my skin colour is or my culture. Walter did changed over time and managed to find peacefulness to this day. My father would still mention his name to my sister and I want
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963). The conflicts to the basic right and freedoms in a society can be depicted as a battlefield. This battlefield is not like a war that lasted for couple of years but for centuries and may last longer than a centuries more. These battlefield are fought for the freedom of expression and against social intolerance. As for many wars that were fought many years ago. The men and women who fought for the rights they deserve after years and years of being held back from laws limiting their freedom to express themselves as a citizen …show more content…
As for example in film “The Butler” (2013) shows a story of a butler named Cecil Gaines working in the White House as a butler for the presidential office, during his time working aside the president’s administration, Cecil saw many changes through his lifetime and what current events were happening during the Civil Right Movement until up to the point when the first black president is elected in 2009 to be one of the most iconic milestone in the American history. Cecil lived his life in a cotton plantation in Macon, Georgia, by his sharecropping parents. Until one day that changes his life when the owner killed his father and raped his mother whose is forever muted by the incident. He learned how to be house servant and eventually left the farm to find other opportunities elsewhere to which led him to work in a hotel and unexpectedly offered to be working in the White House due to his impressive performance. Cecil observed 34th President Dwight D. Eisenhower grappling with school desegregation, 35th President John F. Kennedy proposing the Civil Rights Act, 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson about to sign the voting rights act and 37th President Richard Nixon plotting against the Black Panther and lastly 40th President Ronald Reagan’s refusal to support sanction against South Africa. Before Cecil resigns, he …show more content…
My father is a good example of going against social intolerance but he did through workmanship than speeches. He kept telling stories about himself working under Walter, Walter was once a racist old men during the times where Native Americans are not the similar status in the North. My father told me that he was always tensed by Walter and discouraged but managed to put up with it. Words like “Go home you and hang out with the other drunk Indians that is all you good at anyways”. My father did not stop working he kept going because he did saw his point of view that most of the people who are Natives were drunk most of the time and the stereotype kept on growing. He kept asking me to this day to break that cycle. Honestly I did not know what that meant at all because I was an arrogant young teenager who did not listen on what he has said. Years of growing up I decided to do much more than staying back home, I decided I wanted to seek more help with my education, so I moved down south for a couple of months. I took this program but there was one man was following the old ideal system that all natives drink but I told him I did not drink nor become what others thought of me. It came to me that I did not want to be treated differently because of what my skin colour is or my culture. Walter did changed over time and managed to find peacefulness to this day. My father would still mention his name to my sister and I want