Talking About Freedom

  Your honor, I stand in front of you today to tell you that if you deem this affirmative action program constitutional, it will be one of America's biggest mistakes in history. It will not only cause a massive riot and protest from the white community, but also endanger those same African Americans you're trying to protect and give rights to. As the African Americans and minorities fight for more rights, shouldn't the government help in making them equal not greater than a white man? Mr. Bakke graduated as a  National Merit Scholar from high school with a GPA of 3.51, exceeding many of the minority students that the University of California accepted within the past two years. Shouldn't a college accept the most qualified candidates to represent their institution, if so then why was Bakke denied admissions twice.    “The Supreme Court . Expanding Civil Rights . Landmark Cases . Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978): PBS.” The Supreme Court . Expanding C...

White Like Me     White Like Me was a 2013 film, written by Tim Wise that depicted exactly how white privilege hurts people of color and exactly how blind society is to the truth. Much of the white community aren't aware on the hardships African Americans and other minorities face in places such as employment, housing, education, healthcare, and criminal justice. Wise had one main goal in writing this movie, to try and open the eyes of the people of the white community and make them aware of their privilege. He did so in in telling stories of which he lived through. Mr. Wise blames American society and the way they paint racial privilege, depicting blacks to be subhuman and inferior to whites, thus putting a criminal-like racial profile on blacks . Wise believes that America has tried to cover up and avoid dealing with the problem of racism in our country. In the film, Wise illustrates how Black and Latino males are three times more likely to have their veh...

 Reconstruction Era: Post Civil War After the Civil War, America was trying to piece back together their country and reintegrate Southern states that seceded from the Union at the start of the war. With over 4 million newly-freed people entering into America's workforce, President Andrew Johnson put in place "Black Codes" in attempts to restrict African Americans rights and calm the South. This sparked an outrage in the North, with much support to undo these codes, America's Reconstruction Era Began. With the passing of the Reconstruction Act of 1867, newly-freed Black people finally gained a voice in government for the first time in America's history. Furiated with Black progression, racial and white supremacy groups such as the KKK and White League arose in the 1860's and 70's. These groups would carry out violent crimes against Blacks such as hanging, burning, and lynching in attempts to restore white supremacy in the South. History.com Editors. “Recons...

  Brown V. Board Overview:     Brown V. Board of Education was a monumental Supreme Court case in 1954 in which the court ruled that racial segregation of students in public schools was deemed unconstitutional.  This court case was a focal point in the civil rights movement that helped establish that the  "separate but equal" doctrine was in fact flawed and not tightly enforced.  With the Plessy V. Ferguson case in 1896, the court stated that segregated facilities were legal as long as each facility for both black and whites were "equal". This would open up one of Americas' worst eras in our countries history, the Jim Crow laws, which established the "separate but equal" doctrine which prohibited blacks from sharing buses, schools, and any public facilities as whites. Brown's case:        In the early 1950s, the NACCP was pushing to fight against the segregation laws put on public schools, and litt...

  Albany Movement Albany Movement - New Georgia Encyclopedia . https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/albany-movement/. The Albany movement was one of the biggest anti segregation protest, formed on November 17, 1961 by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,  protesters challenged all forms of segregation and racial discrimination. SNCC traveled to Albany, Georgia to protest against segregation in heavily populated black communities in hope to gain attraction and support from the masses. Following the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, the Albany Movement focused on desegregating travel facilities and hoped to free anyone who was put in jail for other segregation protest. They practiced various nonviolent protest such as  sit-ins, jail-ins, boycotts, and litigation. “Albany Movement.” The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute , 5 Apr. 2018, https://kingins...

 John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry from Oct. 16 to 18, 1859, was one of the biggest attempts to start a slave revolt in Southern states by taking control of various United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Many believe this to be the starting point of the Civil War, since Brown's raid was one of the heaviest news-covered abolitionist events, opening the door to future revolts and creating a domino effect of slave revolts in the South. Brown, along with his small  22 man army defeated a group of U.S. Marines that were guarding a federal armory in Virginia. Brown laid out a plan to take over the armory and seize all the weapons and ammunition, he would then arm slaves and head south near the Appalachian Mountains where he would build a haven for any runaway slaves. His plan, however, was flawed, he had no escape plan in case the mission didn't go as smoothly as planned. “John Brown's Raid.” Ushistory.org , Independence Hall Association, https://www.ushistory.org...