Frederick Douglass Statue

    The vandalism and destruction of Frederick Douglass' statue was a childish and pointless act. The people who committed this act may not have had political motives, but with the current social climate it is hard to think that they didn't. Personally, my thought process on this subject is that it was probably politically motivated and it was another act of racism. This has been happening all over America. Whether it is political groups. taking down statues that they find racist or insensitive or others taking down statues for their own personal motives. These acts could be that of perceived righteousness or they could be childish and racist acts by people who may not even be educated on the significance of abolitionists like Frederick Douglass. 

    People need to educate themselves on the significance of people before they take aggressive action like this against their memorials. Frederick Douglass was a very important figure in our history as a nation. Whether people like it or not, abolitionists are a massive part of our history. The world is changing and people have to accept that. The world is always changing and it will never be the same as it was. There is a quote from writer and philosopher George Santayana that reads "Those who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it", Which in simpler terms means that if you don't learn about history you are doomed to repeat it. People need to get educated on their history before it repeats itself in a way they may not like.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Supreme Court

 The video about  the Supreme Court  was mostly informational and gave a lot of insight into the way the Supreme Court works. It talked about the 9 Supreme Court Justices and their powers to change the law with every decision they make. From this video I was able to learn very many things about the Supreme Court. I learned that they get on average 100 cases every single week. Which averages out to about 7000 cases every year. Supreme Court Justices are Nominated by the acting president. They serve for life with the average time of service being 16 years even though most spend double that time as a justice. They make up the most powerful judicial body on earth and their ability to rule whether the laws should be changed or conserved gives them great power over all the people in the United States.           The Supreme Court has been protecting people under the constitution for a very long time. In that time they have made mistakes and the...
Read more

Pro and Anti-Slavery People in History Presentations

    I learned many things throughout the presentation of the pro and anti slavery representatives. One thing I learned was that Abraham Lincoln was both Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery in his life time. He began saying things that would resemble pro-slavery comments in public, but it seems that he said most of these things so he would gain popularity and when he was elected was when he used his power as president to create real change in the  government. I learned that there were men on both sides like Thomas Jefferson as well who was persuaded by a friend of his to enlighten himself and begin fighting for the anti-slavery movement because he wrote that all men were created equal, but he owned many slaves and heavily profited from them. He changed his mind and freed his slaves. People change throughout life and it is happened many time in history. I also learned of people who's minds were changed for the worse like John C. Calhoun who went into colle...
Read more

Selma and Bloody Sunday

      There were many day in history that people love to forget. March 9th, 1965 or  Bloody Sunday  was one of these infamous days. It began with a peaceful march by the Southern Christian Leadership Council, or SCLC , along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC . These African American people with the help of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had met with president Lyndon B. Johnson a few days before to discuss his voting rights act was forced to stay in Atlanta where he would meet with the other marchers somewhere along their 54 mile journey from Selma, Alabama to the states capital Montgomery.  The March took place on March 9th with around 700 people in attendance. Led by Hosea Williams of the SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC, the peaceful participants of the march began to walk up a very famous bridge with the name of a famous confederate and well known Grand Dragon of the KKK, Edmund Pettus. They didn't know that this bridge would be gro...
Read more