Historical Report on Race

In the United States, Black people are still fighting for equal liberties.  The last two hundred years, all the advances and achievements of this modern world, including vehicles, planes, television, and modern space travel, you could see the achievements and progress, in some cases slow, and some rather quickly, prejudice still exists in today's world, especially for the Black people, Homosexuality, Asians, Hispanics, and Middle Eastern people.  In the United States, the first two are the most experienced in today's society.  If you include Gays on the list of Black people prejudice against Black people would say that would not be the same.  Homosexual should be included in that list because it is something that you are born with and cannot change.  Don't get me wrong, I am not saying what happened in this country and around the world against Black people is not horrible events.  However, I feel that prejudice is prejudice no matter if they are Black, Homosexual, Asian, and so on.  Just because Homosexuals are not born from the same color of skin, they are still exists by discrimination against for what they are.  Modern people have a tendency to forget that homosexuals were rounded out and killed in places like Auschwitz by the Nazi and ridiculed, beaten up, and placed in mental wards.  On many occasions, they also were given shock treatments or lobotomies.   If not bigotry against a group of people, most bigots would not know they are bigots, I don't know what is.  That is why I feel I can relate to the wrongful treatment of people that are different.  Bigotry is what it boils down to.  I would think in today's modern society that people, in general, becoming educated many with college degrees still would not have fear for the things that were different. 

The prejudice against people of darker skin has been going on for many centuries from slavery, to becoming slaughtered like cattle because they had no human value.  They were publically beaten, chained, and shackled like prisoners where ever they went.  Many times in the last couple of centuries, famous white people Thomas Jefferson had numerous affairs with a Black slave.  When she got pregnant, he moved her to Paris, France where colored people are recognized as every day citizens.  Thomas Jefferson reportedly supported her and her offspring for the rest of their lives. 

The Civil War was fought for and against the liberties of Black people to make them free people.  The problem was these people were freed with no education, no job, nowhere to live, and no money, which is like handing a two-year-old a knife telling her to cut her own tonsils out.  Without any skills, it was very hard for them to maintain themselves.

The Civil Rights Movement came about in the 1960s, when not just Black people but all people were given the equal rights, allowing them to eat, drink, and sit in the same spaces as White people.  It all started in a small town from Mississippi when Rosa Parks, a young Black woman, refused to ride in back of a bus.  The police were called, hulled her off the bus, and three her in jail.  The federal government were involved and started the ball rolling to what is called The Civil Rights Movement.  In the 1960s, the Million Man March in Washington DC to demonstrate that they can pull together and show unity in numbers.  Around this time, there were many historical events around the Black movement.  First, John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov 23, 1963.  Then Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.  It was not that long ago afterwards, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, which was on June 6, 1968.  John F. Kennedy was a adamant supporter of Civil Rights, but him being assassinated did not stop the movement of the Civil Rights.  Martin Luther King Jr's assassination sparked and helped the Civil Rights movement to come to ahead, with the assassination of Robert F Kennedy.  The powder keg was lit, and  the world would never be the same again.  Around the early 90s, Rodney King who was beaten by the police and caught on video tape.  During that time,  a Korean grocer in Los Angeles shot and killed a Black girl for petty theft that ignited the second round of the Los Angeles Riots.  The first were the Watts riots in 1965 when the majority of downtown Los Angeles were destroyed.  The majority of the destruction was in Watts California.  Both riots although they gained national exposure of the building of the pressure of the tensions in the United States.  I want to add that would never happen again, but with the current state of racial tensions in not only the world but within the United States, it is not only probably but also likely to happen again.