Hello, everyone today I'm going to share with you what I've learnt about Afro-Americans. Thanks to movies and books such as "Selma" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" this year I've discovered lots of things about Afro-Americans. We saw people in the USA who marked history with their implication against injustice such as Martin Lutter King who made a speech about human rights in 1963 in Washington DC, or Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks who refused to leave their seats in a bus in Montgomery in 1954. We can also name Atticus Finch, who defended Tom Robinson, a black man, who was wrongly accused because of his color of raping a white girl Mayella Ewell. All of them were trying to solve the problem of violence and discrimination suffered by Afro-Americans. As a conclusion I've discovered how much in the USA black people were discriminated against not so long ago. Thank you for reading my comment, Emilie Struelens 1ereS5
For begin, I see exactly what you want to say and I totally agree with you both The movie "Selma" and the book "To kill a mocking bird" are so well explained that we understand perfectly well what the blacks were endureding 60 years ago. I, too, learned a lot about Afro-Americans and, more specifically, about the stupidity of white humans...
Hadil Midassi, you ask me if I am shocked by humans (humans, not animals, humans) who have manifested themselves not violently against the government and against society as a whole to have rights that we (the white) already had ?! Well, I'll answer you ... ABSOLUTELY NOT !!! Know that before, there were spaces reserved for blacks and spaces reserved for whites ... and everywhere: in buses, toilets, schools ... Luckily, in 1954, the Supreme Court announced that the segregation in schools was forbidden. It was in 1955 that things would (really) start to change ... During the year 1955, a young woman named Claudette Colvin refused to leave a place for a white person because she was pregnant (the best known is Rosa Parks who, too, refused to leave her seat). And as she was sitting on a seat intended for whites, this act created controversy as well as a long road to racial equality ... The film "Selma" deals with the true story of Martin Luther King, the a man who defended the rights of blacks (as well as Rosa Parks in 1956) until his assassination in 1968 by a stupid man (white man). As for the book "To kill a mocking bird", I'm on page 135 and, I can just tell you that little by little, we focus on the characters and, as a result, we are more easily immersed in his reading.
To conclude, in 1984, Jessey Jackson was the first black to run for president and in 2008, Barack Obama was the first black to be president of the United States. This thing was possible only thanks to the actions of every black who protested against an unequal and racist system ...
Today I will share with you my point of view about what people did to get equality. First of all there are Afro-Americans who fought against segregation and discrimination to get the right to vote during the 20th century. For instance, Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 because she refused to let her seat in a bus. The same thing happened in 1955 with Rosa Parks, she also refused to let her seat in a segregated bus. There was also Martin Luther King who organised marches to protest against discrimination and the right to vote. All these people have contributed to change mentalities in USA. As far as I'm concerned, I think these people are very strong to manage to do that without using violence. Moreover I'm also choked that people must did all of this to get equality.
Hello! Are you ok ? Today, I would like to give you my point of view about what happened in the USA to end discrimination and to obtain equality.
First of all, I would like to recall that equality is a fundamental right that everybody should have. Even if skin's color make out people, blood's color is the same; so why skin's color should be an obstacle to obtain this essentiel right ?
In this way, in the USA, there was many people who fought against segregation, discrimination to have equality between people. There was Martin Luther King, the most famous among themselves, who fought his whole life to give at black people the right to vote organizing march and demonstration. He devoted his life to do black's life better. However, he was assassinated in 1963. There was too Claudette Colvin, the first woman who refused to give up her seat inside a segregated bus, followed by Rosa Park few months later. Their action led to a massive bus boycott for 365 days; and in 1956, bus segregation were declared unconstitutionnel. But the most beautiful thing happened there, it's when Jesse Jackson, the first black, standed him for the democratic presidential elections in 1984.
So all this people contribuated to make better black people's life and it's really honorable. I think black people, and me too, are sincerely greatful for all the work made to let us be and have what we have today. Even if racism isn't finished, it's a great step towards equality. Martin Luther King said one day «If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but whatever you do, you should keep progress.», it's exactly what black people did since the end of slavery.
To begin with, equality is one of my major principles.
In fact, I don't think you can go too far or be shocked about a way to obtain equality because what you should be shocked about is the inequality itself. I personally think that the racism and the segregation that separated American from other American is a huge shame and I am not shocked about anyways people fought to get here. However, we can see that today, the same debate is brought up with the election of Donald Trump, pushing people to discriminate each other with outrageous talks. To conclude, I think that even if there were many violent movements in order to get (almost) equality between Americans, most of them were non-violent and are nothing compared to what African-American have been trough.
Hello, in my last post I made some mistakes: «the colour of the blood is the same» instead of «blood's color is the same»; «They were many people» and not «there was many people»; «the most famous amongst them» instead of «the most famous among themselves»; «Black people» with B in capital letter and not tiny; «to make Black people's life better» and no «to make better black people's life» and «organizing marches and demonstrations» instead of «organizing march and demonstration». Then I made a mistake when I said «Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1963» it was in 1968 he was assassinated. Marcia, 1ES1
Hello everyone, To start with, I totally share Hana's point of view. I think that whatever you do in order to obtain principles such as equality in this case, it will worth it. Indeed, there is a french expression that says "the goal justifies the means" and I think that this expression is true to get equality, but is not in all cases. To put it all in a nutshell, I think that with Obama, the America was going up with changes and improvements, but now with Trump it is kind of going reverse
Hello I made some mistakes: it's not "has helpt" but "helped", it's not "USA" but "the USA", it's not "to let her seat" but "To give up her seat and it's not "choked" but "shocked". Sorry for mistakes Goodbye Susie 1es1
Hi everybody ! When speaking about discrimination in the USA, I immediately think about Martin Lutter King who made a speech about human rights in 1963 in Washington DC and Rosa Parks who refused to leave her seat in a bus in Montgomery in 1954. To my mind, I admire these people who fought for the rights of black people without using violence. They were very courageous and made US mentalities' evolve. The best example is the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the USA. To conclude, I must admit that I'm choked that black people had to fight that hard to get equality. Emilie D TS2
Hello, First I think that equality is fundamental in a state so of course I'm not shocked by what happened in the USA. But I admire nay the Afro-Americans for their courage and perseverance. They fought during many years to get their civil rights and equality between black and white without violence. Today their fight was rewarded even if unfortunately racism is still present. To conclude I am not shocked by what Afro-americans had to do but by the time that had been took.
Hello everyone, That's a good matter, well, to be honest, I'd say that I'm very shocked by all the things that happened in America to stop the discrimination and inequalities. Indeed, I feel also sad because the principle of the society is to establish peace and respect between people, not to divide them and worse. As we can see in the movie which is called "Selma", many black people fighted for many years to defend their Civil rights and to obtain equality in their society. I would like to mention Martin Luther King, who was a very courageous and strong man who never gave up and have fought until his death for peace and for Black people rights, even if there was so many tragedies... I mean too many people were injured or were killed only because they wanted to defend their rights. In conclusion, I want to share my sadness, for all dreadful things that our society gave to us, and my admiration for all these people who never stop dreaming of a better life, a life in which they could finally say that they are free, happy, thankful.
Hello, everyone today I'm going to share with you what I've learnt about Afro-Americans. Thanks to movies and books such as "Selma" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" this year I've discovered lots of things about Afro-Americans. We saw people in the USA who marked history with their implication against injustice such as Martin Lutter King who made a speech about human rights in 1963 in Washington DC, or Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks who refused to leave their seats in a bus in Montgomery in 1954. We can also name Atticus Finch, who defended Tom Robinson, a black man, who was wrongly accused because of his color of raping a white girl Mayella Ewell. All of them were trying to solve the problem of violence and discrimination suffered by Afro-Americans. As a conclusion I've discovered how much in the USA black people were discriminated against not so long ago. Thank you for reading my comment, Emilie Struelens 1ereS5
ReplyDeletesorry I made a mistake it's not "How much in the USA black people were discriminated " but "How much black people suffered in the USA"
DeleteHello Emilie,
ReplyDeleteFor begin, I see exactly what you want to say and I totally agree with you both The movie "Selma" and the book "To kill a mocking bird" are so well explained that we understand perfectly well what the blacks were endureding 60 years ago.
I, too, learned a lot about Afro-Americans and, more specifically, about the stupidity of white humans...
Hadil Midassi, you ask me if I am shocked by humans (humans, not animals, humans) who have manifested themselves not violently against the government and against society as a whole to have rights that we (the white) already had ?! Well, I'll answer you ... ABSOLUTELY NOT !!!
Know that before, there were spaces reserved for blacks and spaces reserved for whites ... and everywhere: in buses, toilets, schools ... Luckily, in 1954, the Supreme Court announced that the segregation in schools was forbidden.
It was in 1955 that things would (really) start to change ...
During the year 1955, a young woman named Claudette Colvin refused to leave a place for a white person because she was pregnant (the best known is Rosa Parks who, too, refused to leave her seat). And as she was sitting on a seat intended for whites, this act created controversy as well as a long road to racial equality ... The film "Selma" deals with the true story of Martin Luther King, the a man who defended the rights of blacks (as well as Rosa Parks in 1956) until his assassination in 1968 by a stupid man (white man).
As for the book "To kill a mocking bird", I'm on page 135 and, I can just tell you that little by little, we focus on the characters and, as a result, we are more easily immersed in his reading.
To conclude, in 1984, Jessey Jackson was the first black to run for president and in 2008, Barack Obama was the first black to be president of the United States. This thing was possible only thanks to the actions of every black who protested against an unequal and racist system ...
Mathias Benhamou 1ère S5
Hello everyone!
ReplyDeleteToday I will share with you my point of view about what people did to get equality. First of all there are Afro-Americans who fought against segregation and discrimination to get the right to vote during the 20th century. For instance, Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 because she refused to let her seat in a bus. The same thing happened in 1955 with Rosa Parks, she also refused to let her seat in a segregated bus. There was also Martin Luther King who organised marches to protest against discrimination and the right to vote. All these people have contributed to change mentalities in USA. As far as I'm concerned, I think these people are very strong to manage to do that without using violence. Moreover I'm also choked that people must did all of this to get equality.
Susie 1es1 (139 words)
Hello! Are you ok ?
ReplyDeleteToday, I would like to give you my point of view about what happened in the USA to end discrimination and to obtain equality.
First of all, I would like to recall that equality is a fundamental right that everybody should have. Even if skin's color make out people, blood's color is the same; so why skin's color should be an obstacle to obtain this essentiel right ?
In this way, in the USA, there was many people who fought against segregation, discrimination to have equality between people. There was Martin Luther King, the most famous among themselves, who fought his whole life to give at black people the right to vote organizing march and demonstration. He devoted his life to do black's life better. However, he was assassinated in 1963.
There was too Claudette Colvin, the first woman who refused to give up her seat inside a segregated bus, followed by Rosa Park few months later. Their action led to a massive bus boycott for 365 days; and in 1956, bus segregation were declared unconstitutionnel. But the most beautiful thing happened there, it's when Jesse Jackson, the first black, standed him for the democratic presidential elections in 1984.
So all this people contribuated to make better black people's life and it's really honorable. I think black people, and me too, are sincerely greatful for all the work made to let us be and have what we have today. Even if racism isn't finished, it's a great step towards equality.
Martin Luther King said one day «If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl; but whatever you do, you should keep progress.», it's exactly what black people did since the end of slavery.
Marcia, 1ES1, 298 words.
Hi everyone!
ReplyDeleteTo begin with, equality is one of my major principles.
In fact, I don't think you can go too far or be shocked about a way to obtain equality because what you should be shocked about is the inequality itself. I personally think that the racism and the segregation that separated American from other American is a huge shame and I am not shocked about anyways people fought to get here.
However, we can see that today, the same debate is brought up with the election of Donald Trump, pushing people to discriminate each other with outrageous talks.
To conclude, I think that even if there were many violent movements in order to get (almost) equality between Americans, most of them were non-violent and are nothing compared to what African-American have been trough.
HANA AYED TLE ES 2
Hello, in my last post I made some mistakes: «the colour of the blood is the same» instead of «blood's color is the same»; «They were many people» and not «there was many people»; «the most famous amongst them» instead of «the most famous among themselves»; «Black people» with B in capital letter and not tiny; «to make Black people's life better» and no «to make better black people's life» and «organizing marches and demonstrations» instead of «organizing march and demonstration». Then I made a mistake when I said «Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1963» it was in 1968 he was assassinated.
ReplyDeleteMarcia, 1ES1
Hello everyone,
ReplyDeleteTo start with, I totally share Hana's point of view. I think that whatever you do in order to obtain principles such as equality in this case, it will worth it. Indeed, there is a french expression that says "the goal justifies the means" and I think that this expression is true to get equality, but is not in all cases.
To put it all in a nutshell, I think that with Obama, the America was going up with changes and improvements, but now with Trump it is kind of going reverse
Hello I made some mistakes: it's not "has helpt" but "helped", it's not "USA" but "the USA", it's not "to let her seat" but "To give up her seat and it's not "choked" but "shocked". Sorry for mistakes Goodbye
ReplyDeleteSusie 1es1
Hi everybody !
ReplyDeleteWhen speaking about discrimination in the USA, I immediately think about Martin Lutter King who made a speech about human rights in 1963 in Washington DC and Rosa Parks who refused to leave her seat in a bus in Montgomery in 1954.
To my mind, I admire these people who fought for the rights of black people without using violence. They were very courageous and made US mentalities' evolve. The best example is the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the USA.
To conclude, I must admit that I'm choked that black people had to fight that hard to get equality.
Emilie D TS2
Hello,
ReplyDeleteFirst I think that equality is fundamental in a state so of course I'm not shocked by what happened in the USA. But I admire nay the Afro-Americans for their courage and perseverance. They fought during many years to get their civil rights and equality between black and white without violence. Today their fight was rewarded even if unfortunately racism is still present.
To conclude I am not shocked by what Afro-americans had to do but by the time that had been took.
Camille DAHMOUNI, 1S5
Hello,
DeleteSorry I made a mistake: it's not "I admire nay" but I admire many"
Camille DAHMOUNI, 1S5
Hello everyone,
ReplyDeleteThat's a good matter, well, to be honest, I'd say that I'm very shocked by all the things that happened in America to stop the discrimination and inequalities.
Indeed, I feel also sad because the principle of the society is to establish peace and respect between people, not to divide them and worse.
As we can see in the movie which is called "Selma", many black people fighted for many years to defend their Civil rights and to obtain equality in their society. I would like to mention Martin Luther King, who was a very courageous and strong man who never gave up and have fought until his death for peace and for Black people rights, even if there was so many tragedies... I mean too many people were injured or were killed only because they wanted to defend their rights.
In conclusion, I want to share my sadness, for all dreadful things that our society gave to us, and my admiration for all these people who never stop dreaming of a better life, a life in which they could finally say that they are free, happy, thankful.
Thao Pham, 1ere ES 3