Thinking of the Civil War as the beginning of "modern" America is an arguable idea because people in the South never changed the way that they thought about blacks. Today I am constantly reminded of my race and my family members historic battle to get to where the black race is viewed today, yes, kids my age make racial jokes about my dark skin and snicker to each other about “the next Klan meeting” as if I can’t hear them. They think blacks or the Northerners didn’t work hard enough to get where America the black community is viewed today or maybe the children of former Southerners will never let history stay in the past. I am afraid when my generation starts teaching and raising the next generation these racial jokes will be taken seriously and the blacks will be treated like a second class citizen only because of the color of their skin, yet again.
The Civil War intended to put slavery to an end, but it did not put racism to an end of course racism still continues today, Although people who approved the confederate union or were members in a Klan were not that educated like in the text I analyzed dying for Dixie the characters in the text kept strong verbal opinions that made me believe (that they thought) that blacks were better off being slaves because they were just made that way and if it were any other way it would be ruining the White's potential to succeed. This makes me feel as if the Southerners were using the blacks as a scapegoat, because the blacks had just as much educational tools as the Southerners (if not less) but the blacks still tried to reach their full potential with the little amount of tools and rights they did have in 1955.
Modern America still has many of the same problems as pre-Civil War America, because the minority is still not treated fairly. "Racism is a danger which has plagued America throughout it's existence as a nation." Racism will never end people (Southerns) refuse to adapt to the way we fought for years ago (equality and freedom) since Obama has been in office racist people have been giving him a hard time with his responsibilities and promises he stated in his speeches while running for president. But when Bush was in office and he constantly made stupid choices and he was never harassed about his choices or future plans.
Reconstruction did not bring the South back into the US successfully, which meant that America couldn't really become "modern" or change or resolve the issues of Souths unwillingness to rejoin back with America and live in equality. We will never live in equality, we are easily persuaded persons and anyone can tell us their beliefs and can somehow alter ours. Some think it is cool to just shout out "white power" because its funny to people who don't take racism seriously, I honestly think America is not 'the land of the free nor the home of the brave', because we can barely control the citizens to accept each other so illegal immigrants are wasting their time climbing boarders or building underground tunnels to be "free".
Racism is found in America since colonial times and it continues today because we have too many immature people in the world who are not properly educated with our countries history or any other country, we speak of our country so highly but we secretly fear the Asian culture will one day become the most educated and will come to America and he the boss or managers of all major companies and Americans will then be looked down upon.
Even during Reconstruction, politicians tried to pass a Civil Rights bill, but it took almost 100 years for a Civil Rights bill to pass because America is all talk and no action we still makes plans to 'go green' and by the time we do (if we ever do) it will be years late. We the people need to start educating ourselves and stop procrastinating to make this a better nation, a better republic and reallybe the "land of the free and the home of the brave".
The Civil War intended to put slavery to an end, but it did not put racism to an end of course racism still continues today, Although people who approved the confederate union or were members in a Klan were not that educated like in the text I analyzed dying for Dixie the characters in the text kept strong verbal opinions that made me believe (that they thought) that blacks were better off being slaves because they were just made that way and if it were any other way it would be ruining the White's potential to succeed. This makes me feel as if the Southerners were using the blacks as a scapegoat, because the blacks had just as much educational tools as the Southerners (if not less) but the blacks still tried to reach their full potential with the little amount of tools and rights they did have in 1955.
Modern America still has many of the same problems as pre-Civil War America, because the minority is still not treated fairly. "Racism is a danger which has plagued America throughout it's existence as a nation." Racism will never end people (Southerns) refuse to adapt to the way we fought for years ago (equality and freedom) since Obama has been in office racist people have been giving him a hard time with his responsibilities and promises he stated in his speeches while running for president. But when Bush was in office and he constantly made stupid choices and he was never harassed about his choices or future plans.
Reconstruction did not bring the South back into the US successfully, which meant that America couldn't really become "modern" or change or resolve the issues of Souths unwillingness to rejoin back with America and live in equality. We will never live in equality, we are easily persuaded persons and anyone can tell us their beliefs and can somehow alter ours. Some think it is cool to just shout out "white power" because its funny to people who don't take racism seriously, I honestly think America is not 'the land of the free nor the home of the brave', because we can barely control the citizens to accept each other so illegal immigrants are wasting their time climbing boarders or building underground tunnels to be "free".
Racism is found in America since colonial times and it continues today because we have too many immature people in the world who are not properly educated with our countries history or any other country, we speak of our country so highly but we secretly fear the Asian culture will one day become the most educated and will come to America and he the boss or managers of all major companies and Americans will then be looked down upon.
Even during Reconstruction, politicians tried to pass a Civil Rights bill, but it took almost 100 years for a Civil Rights bill to pass because America is all talk and no action we still makes plans to 'go green' and by the time we do (if we ever do) it will be years late. We the people need to start educating ourselves and stop procrastinating to make this a better nation, a better republic and reallybe the "land of the free and the home of the brave".
So I live today and ponder about the future that will soon lay in the hands of my generation, will racism ever subside? Will history repeat itself? I can’t tell you this just yet, but I can answer one question and that is if we will ever be an equal republic and the answer is no, because America is not ready for change. We get motivated and then loose all motivation to move forward then again there are the select few that still disagree with the majority and that person will then persuade a group of people and then before you know it history repeats itself.
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