Why Are People Treated Equally?

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If all people are humans just of different colors, then why weren’t all people treated equally?

I, Rosa Parks, truly would like to know the reason people were segregated and treated unequally. Everyone as I saw it is a human with many of the same features as one another. This being said, why did there have to be a law for segregation put in place to start with? The U.S. was and still is known as a free country. When I think of it, I picture people going out and doing their own thing without being told where to go. Segregation was just a very cruel way to tell people, especially blacks that they aren’t worth anything. For example, the bus incident, I was told to move because a white person deserved the seat more than I did at the time.

Going back to the day I was involved in the bus situation, it was in my eyes a normal day before this all had happened. For me, sitting in a certain section on the bus was nothing new, but to sit in the right spot, then be asked to move was something that shouldn’t have happened. During all of this, I was just thinking I was going to get to go home without any
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When I think of different skin colors, I just see the people without even thinking about the color. Color is just an image that was taken too far when talking about people. In general, many of us think of people as just people, but what we truly need to take into consideration is that nobody is of lesser value. Skin is just from genetics, and I myself just wanted people to know that it shouldn’t matter who you are. After the whole civil rights movement, I just thought about how much courage it took for me and others to show that we all are one. Nothing should be looked at as different from human to human, except for some of our traits from genetics. Even though people have different qualities, there are many of the same characteristics as

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