My Reflection On The Process

Writing my persuasion was a complicated and challenging process. First, we had to choose our topics and write reasons and examples. We also did something that really helped me out. We did webs and wrote everything we knew about our topics. When we came up with ideas for topics, at first I wanted to do gender association for myself, but then I had another idea to write my essay on racism. It was hard for me to come up with three reasons and nine examples, but I’m happy with what I came up with. Creating our essays and typing them was just about the easiest part of the process for me. Finally, we did the most fun part (at least it was in my opinion!). We created slideshows! I got to experiment and have fun with it. I had a hard time with recording my voice but Mr. Casal and Mr. Mitchell lent me a microphone and the recording box and I felt a lot better about it. Overall, I’m happy with what I came up with and glad I did what I did.

My Essay On Racism

Racism

          By: Rhea

In my opinion neither black or white have equity or equality between them and they should be able to have both of them instead of getting treated unfairly.

  My first reason is blacks and whites have different resources and this is not equal because one can have better than the other. You might be thinking: “Okay so why does that matter?” Well, it matters a lot because let’s say there was one really smart kid and one kid who needed extra help. The smart kid gets tons of compliments from the teacher and the kid who needs help just gets scoldings. Is that going to help the kid learn, NO! The smart kid needs a challenge and the kid who needs help needs help from a kind, patient teacher. One example is blacks had to move if a white wanted to take their seat on the bus, or it was possible to get arrested.  In fact on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for disorderly conduct for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white man. A second example is whites had better treatment as well as resources. A final example is that whites also had better and more rights than blacks did. 

My  second reason is that blacks and whites couldn’t be together, chat together, sit together, or not even go to school together. In fact, on November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges went to an all white school. Ruby and her mother were escorted with four federal marshals to the school every day that year and she walked past crowds screaming vicious slurs at her.  Blacks couldn’t just go over to a white’s house and start chatting with them. They would get arrested for pulling a stunt like that! Another example is they couldn’t be in a class together for some time. (Until Ruby Bridges came along)! A third example is that blacks and whites couldn’t sit together on the bus. In fact the front half was meant for the whites and the back for blacks to sit. My last example is there was no equity or equality! An example is that whites have better treatment. Blacks and whites couldn’t even be educated together for a while. A second reason is they weren’t even supposed to talk to one another! You might be thinking right now so what, why does this matter, but it matters a lot. How would you feel if you had a best friend and she was getting treated badly and you couldn’t even go to school with her, talk to her or play together with her? It is NOT fair and that needs to change sooner or later.

 My final reason is that neither of them got what they actually really needed in life. Maybe some of them couldn’t reach their goals or follow their dreams or they didn’t get the career they had wanted.  Part of the reason why they could not is because of racism, which needs to stop or it may get worse than it is. In 1963, King and the SCLC worked with NAACP and other civil rights groups to organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which attracted 250,000 people to rally for the civil and economic rights of Black Americans in the nation’s capital. There, King delivered his majestic 17 minute “I Have A Dream” speech.

I might be just a nine year old kid, but after reading this you should go off  thinking of how differently blacks and whites were treated and how we can change all of this nonsense going on. Racism is a horrible thing that goes on around in the world and everybody needs to do their part to help change this. But everyone needs to do their part and help change this and put a stop to it or it can get worse.

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