Civil Rights Argumentative Essay

I as a little girl was always told to treat people the way I wanted to be treated. That taught me to love. I was told that face would freeze if I kept making it. That taught me to watch my attitude. I was told my tongue would dry out if I kept it out, so I kept it in. That taught me to be polite. Unfortunately, as we grow older, we all move on from those silly tactics. Even I have forgotten the simple childhood laws, and thought low of people. You cannot claim innocence. We see how cruel the world is, but we were shielded from it. We see how we must adapt to our time. We see we don't live in the sweet innocent world we once saw. Instead we’re bittersweet. Nowadays we look at those children we once were, playing on that playground, we miss

Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights movement was in action. The Civil Rights movement marched to eliminate “Jim Crow Laws” or “Separate but Equal”. However, African Americans still face many problems that affect them daily. We support discrimination, and segregation. Just for the color of their skin, people are harassed in public, threatened in their homes, and sometimes enslaved or murdered. It’s disgusting how society set standards, that each American has to live up to. What are we teaching our children? That it’s okay to shun, or harm another for the way they look. Why is it when someone has special needs, or comes from another country makes them an alien? We all live in the same space. Aliens do not exist. We no longer allow people who need help to come to us. We have closed arms for these people. Our hope for the future is

Only after a tragedy, we realize how much we need each other to overcome anything. Like Bombings of our marathons. Right after one of two bombs went off, love responded. Officials, even injured civilians were helping others. It not only was their job, but it was their belief they needed to help save lives. Why can’t it be like that all the time? Why is it that when people are slaughtered we finally realize we're all equal? Not only do we come together in rare times, but we don't pay attention to it after a while. We shield our children, and shield ourselves from the harsh truth. We choose to move on. When that moment is written down in the books, we see it’s the past and it no longer matters. Our attention spans are deathly small. Our hope for the future is