Person 5

While reading the posting for this week, I realized that it had many good points. Something that caught my attention while reading the article was when it said women were created equal to men through the creator. Whatever happened to leaving church and state separate? Another thing that stuck out to me was that the entire posting was about women’s rights and how they should stand up to the law. They need to stand up for their rights. This reminds me of how Martin Luther King wanted equal rights for those who didn’t have equal rights: African Americans. Another thing that stood out to me was the fact that laws that prohibit women from the pursuit of happiness are against the law, as they should be. Women are the same as men, and should have the same opportunities as men, just like the law says. The resolutions say that it is against nature to deny the rights of women. I agree with this. I believe this has played a part for the way women now-a-days are. If these women before us didn’t fight for their rights, then where would we be? I don’t think that it would have been possible for us to be where we are now. These women who fought for women’s rights played a huge role to where women are today. I personally do not think most women would be where they are now if it weren’t for the women who fought for so diligently for women’s rights. Many women are CEO’s now; would that have been possible if these women hadn’t fought for their rights and the rights of the women after them. If they didn’t fight, where would I be now?

Person 4 Blog

The three most important things that stood out to me were the fact that everyone should be equal and should have the right to happiness this is very important to me because I feel that equality is a major right nobody should be superior or inferior many people lose sight of what really important especially when it comes to money it conquers the mind. What I also found important when it talked about roles in the family because this is what created double standards in america today like stay at home dads how they are looked down upon. Its werid to me how they was trying to create a change but in the end I feel like it was a catch 22. The best thing I found about this article is that woman are equal to men because in all reality women can do anything a man can do most of the time a lot better because they are the ones who go through the most pain example being able to push a baby out. This article had a lot of important facts and ideas but these are what I found important in my eyes.

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.

Week 3 Blog - Person 1

After reading the three blogs of my classmates, the most important points of the article are about the right to vote (everything from here and there about the voting issue) and the basic, simple need for human rights. During the time of LBJ, there was lots of turmoil among our own people—mainly because of the civil rights movement during his term. Kaitlin mentioned that people are always going to have to fight for their civil rights, and like Cat and everyone else, I believe this is true. Even though it looks like our country is equal and all people have civil rights, it is just a face that is put on for the rest of the world. There are many groups in America that feel like the African Americans did back on the 1960’s such as Latinos and Arab/Muslims. They are feeling the pains that others have felt before them and they will fight for their rights.

The other important point is the need for human rights. Everyone on this planet we call home deserves certain rights—not all of these rights are written on paper. They are mainly unspoken laws that everyone tried to live and abide by. Cat posted a great link that brings you to the United Nations where they try to bring awareness to the world’s issues with human rights. Even though there is a committee that is trying to solve these issues, they will never be able to solve them and save those that need it the most.

Overcome-Person 5

Reading the first two posts, the previous bloggers for this week had very good points. That this speech is about the right to vote, the civil rights vote and how color isn’t the problem. Everyone is different in their own way. As Jade said, we are a united Country. But what I liked most about the speech was the part where he says, “There is no issue of state's rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights. I have not the slightest doubt what will be your answer.” I really liked this, because it is true, and a very good point. Everyone should be concerned mostly about human rights. Another point that is very important is a saying that is repeated throughout the entire speech. We shall overcome. This one line speaks volumes about our country. We are united together, no matter what. We are the greatest country when we work together, and through what Lyndon B. Johnson’s message we were able to overcome one of the worst times in our countries history.
I also wanted to mention what Kaitlin mentioned previously again, because it is such an important point. The fight for civil rights is still not over, nor will it ever be, because with civil rights comes human rights. We still haven’t succeeded in freeing those in need from the depression of having their human rights violated. But as a nation, we are heading in that direction. As Lyndon B. Johnson said, “We Shall Overcome.”

Person 4 Blog

The 36th President didnt like the fact that the united states were trying to be divided he didnt want them to look at each other as being south & north, he want them to see that are one a united country. Person 3 Talks about how the president thinks that discrimation of color is a problem, I agree with this so much because I would rather people not like me for my morals and character than to dislike me because the color of my skin. Its crazy that in order for a born citizen to get their constitutional right back in this time period everything had to be writing in stone.
These Movements did help to gain more rights for citizens especially people of color but it didnt eraser the pain and all the deaths that came with it. Being an African American Young Woman reading different articles that talks about all the struggle that my people had to go through in order for me to achieve my goals, makes me happy but sad at the very same time because it shows how if something means that much to you , you would fight for it no matter what if the cost of it might be your life , I am proud so say that I am black.
This article made me think of the Black National Anthem http://http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-black-national-anthem-lyrics-james-weldon-johnson.html it was song writing to express how happy blacks were even though they went through so much in life.

Week Three Blog-Person 3

Lyndon B. Johnson—the 36^th president of the United States from 1963 until 1969—gave a speech Monday, March 15, 1965 after a horrific racial violence act in Selma, Alabama. The violence was directed towards blacks who were protesting for their right to vote, and it was the police who did the attacking. This speech that Johnson made was mainly directed towards everyone’s right to vote. Throughout his speech, he states that he will send in a bill that will not restrict any denial of a black man’s right to vote; this bill is known as the civil rights bill.

The way Johnson approached this really stuck to me; he said that this discrimination of color is a problem, and that it is every citizen of the United States’ problem. “There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.” I feel that even though we were—and still are—the strongest country, the arguing and the violence is a wall that prevents us from becoming stronger. At the very end of the article, after this speech, there were still hate crimes that brought over $40 million in damages. Out of the many life lessons I have learned, one is applicable here: if we all work together, changes can happen. As cheesy as that is, it is true. Sometimes we just need to put aside our differences and accept we all want to succeed and we need each other. To quote Johnson again, “And we are met here tonight as Americans--not as Democrats or Republicans; we're met here as Americans to solve that problem. This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose.”

I would like to mention that finding civil rights is still not over. Today, we are not faced with discriminating minorities of race, but rather of sexual orientation. Although one conflicts differently, the struggle continues. We may sit here today and think that it was crazy not to let the black man vote; but we sit here today and think that it is right to deny two people to get married. I believe that we need to accept that everyone is different. People felt that blacks should not vote, but we changed. Maybe it will all change.