Week Three Blog-Person 2

After reading the four previous posts and the article, I have decided that everyone had really great points and the article was interesting as well. The article focused on LBJ wanting everyone, including African Americans to be able to vote. It also showed the struggle that they had to overcome in order to achieve that goal. I strongly agree with Jade when she said that she would rather people not like her for her morals and her character rather than the color of her skin. I feel that it is not only rude and cruel to judge someone based on the color of their skin, but its ethically wrong as well. I feel that LBJ wanted the opposite of that to happen: people to notice others because of his or her character instead of the color or their skin. Cat also had an amazing point; when she talks about the one like that essentially defines our country : "we shall overcome". We, as a United country have encountered so many issues, and have gotten through each one together. When Kaitlyn quoted from the speech " There is no negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only American problem", it defined her post. She focused on the fact that this was an issue and that LBJ wanted to fix it. He wanted to unite the United States. I'm glad that I didn't have to live through the era where whites were thought to be superior to blacks, because I would have been hated by other whites, and would have hated everything they were doing to the African Americans. And to think, all of this happened because of the color of someone's skin.