Jounn Robinson Reflection

What can the past teach us? This is a very widespread and very used question, but if we think carefully of this question that seems so simple and innocent it has so many meanings and importance to mankind, the present and what may be the future. The past can teach us many things, where we come from, who we are, who were our

In the article Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are written by David McCullough, is an essay in which he informs how important it is to learn about our history and how it shapes who we are today. Throughout, he connects important events from American History and relates it to our lives and the world around us. The three main ideas; which are “Character and Destiny”, “Our failure, Our Duty”, and “Listening to the Past”. These ideas

this chapter, shows how the past played a significant part in the present and affects it.On the

History, especially in regards to issues of race, is a repetitive thing. There are recurring events just with different faces, places, and circumstances consuming the individuals of the communities we live. Once where the black communities started to form their own progressive movements and make a name for themselves in America they are now regressing back to a time where justice for the black community only seems to be something we dream, hope, and fight for. Reading “The Fire this Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race” by Jesmyn Ward made me open my eyes to a different reality one that I think I tried to believe did not exist to appease the fantasy that one day we would all be seen as truly equals. In reality, we are not equals. We live in a world that constantly tries to demean people of

First is that we need to remember our history. If we forget our history we will be bound to repeat it. Our history is one of the most important things that we

Discrimination and acceptance is apparent before, as it is in the present. Before, African Americans were given “freedom” that wasn’t entirely free. Today, African Americans are fully free, however, they still receive some discrimination and unfair judgment. After the Civil War, African Americans finally received their so-called, “freedom,” and a time of rebuilding and readmitting began. Both the whites and the African Americans had to adapt to these new changes. African Americans were able to receive food, jobs, education, and much more, yet not as fantastic as they hoped. Southerners wanted segregation, and applied a tiny amount of freedom rights for African Americans. The Southern Whites won the Second Civil War (Reconstruction), as they are still perceived to be above the African Americans, and extremely worked to keep no

Segregation was formed 1896 when the Supreme Court passed the law of separation of whites and blacks. This history changing passing of segregation has been the down fall of AfricanAmericans. Of course, we had noble and courageous abolisher, such as Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, and many other run a ways who made it to see a brighter, free day. Though, there was never anything who was a younger image in African American history. I am talking about the

This conflict may not have occurred if black people were never used as slaves. If they white slave owners would have just done his own work racism would have never come to light. That’s just not what happened, for all

For many years there was a lot of separation between whites and blacks, that is also known as segregation.

Our ancestors were brought over into the United States from Africa unwillingly. The day they stepped foot on American soil became the start of an unpropitious future. Slavery lasted for approximately 245 years, and the repugnance did not stop there. Segregation became a substantial political issue. Minorities banned together to desegregate: schools, housing communities, and even public facilities. There were even caucasians, the majority, who helped with giving every human equal rights. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and

Just as America’s history is permanent, the pain experienced by the slaves as they underwent segregation in the hands of their owners cannot be changed and it has played a role in drawing the line on how the white people and African-Americans relate to date.

society and what it means to be Native American today persist to this day. They continue to be forced into the white man's way, yet try to hold onto their own. Despite all the oppression, the way Native Americans deal with and perceive American cultural, economic, and military power is presented by the author and his characters.

America has faced a lot of hardships since being created by our founding fathers. We experienced the struggle for freedom, westward expansion, and a nation divided upon itself. However, one of the biggest struggles faced in America is segregation, racism, and the division of people against each other. Since the Civil War it has been one of the greatest conflicts in our nation’s history. Black vs. White is an issue that has been debated from the early beginning of our nation to the civil war to the civil rights movement and even today African Americans are discriminated against.

Why does our past have to be filled with racial harm towards most that are of color? In the past, blacks were known as slaves and treated unfairly because of their skin color and culture. They worked hard for the whites while being beaten, afraid to run away. Although there were multiple ways of harm towards the African American people we fought through it. Nowadays I strongly believe the people of color (the blacks) should learn about their history and read the stories. White people should also read these stories because they are the people that did this harm and its their story too. Everyone other than whites and blacks should read this story just to have a better understanding of our world’s past history.

things we might do can affect our past,and destroy our thoughts religion also the things we need to understand the past world.Also in the text (Freedom Walkers) we judged people by their skin tone and we have to look back to have that never happen again.We just think of ourselves and what we do now and do not appreciate people who fought for what we don’t pay no attention to like when the said there were protest in the text(Freedom Walkers).just like (Jo Ann