Thinking Thinking Thinking
I’ve been thinking about many things lately. One issue is quite timely, it being Martin Luther King Jr. Day and all. I’ve been thinking about the civil rights movement and how much strength and courage everyone who fought for our rights had. I was watching a movie the other day, something with Whoppi Goldberg, and it was set in the civil-rights era. It showed how Blacks were boycotting the busses, and doing that meant they had to walk everywhere they went, even several miles to work or the nearest store, or if someone they knew had a car, they could try to carpool. It’s amazing how the whole black community could pull together for one united effort, even though it was very difficult. They had to worry about loosing their jobs, being terrorized by the KKK, getting sprayed with high pressure fire hoses and mauled by police dogs, all with the justice system doing virtually nothing about it. And now, today, whenever I get on the bus, I can sit in whatever seat I darn well please, and the same goes for any restaurant I visit. If it were not for the efforts of those activists, where would the black community be today? There is so much we take for granted.

Looking at the united effort of those working for civil rights, makes me wonder why can’t Americans as a whole pull together against so much corruption that is going on right now? There are so many companies and businesses that are using unethical standards, mistreating employees and exploiting cheap labor. Something can be done, but not if we don’t pull together and unite against this corruption.