Reflective Essay: The Women's March On DC

One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation was written, African Americans were still fighting for equal rights in every day life. The first real success of this movement did not come until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was followed by many boycotts and protests. The largest of these protests, the March on Washington, was held on August 28, 1963 “for jobs and freedom” (March on Washington 11). An incredible amount of preparation went into the event to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of people attending from around the nation and to deal with any potential incidents.

I think the March on Washington impacted in history. The people of young and old, African American and American all came together to make a point. They wanted the African Americans to have equality. They didn't want to have everyone separate for bathrooms, buses, schools, water fountains an much more! They all wanted to have one country that stays together and not apart from one another.

I was asked to write on The March On Washington and my opinion on it so I am. The March on Washington was a protest against black rights also a march to the Lincoln Memorial where there Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous speech ''I Have a Dream'' speech. It was a speech of ''hope and determination''. I think the March On Washington was really cool because It was what made black equal to the white.

Introduction In 2017, the Women’s March movement started with a tweet from a concerned American citizen, and resulted in the presence of over 5,000,000 people, coming together worldwide in solidarity (Women’s March Organizers, 2018). Although this movement began in the United States, women across the globe banded together to fight for women’s rights and equality. However, it was quickly noted that if this march was to be successful, it needed to include all women, and not just the White, middle-class women. Previous feminist approaches have been non-inclusive when addressing women’s rights and therefore, intersectionality is necessary to address the diversity that encompasses the women’s movement.

America has been built on the idea that as citizens, we have the choice to decide what is the best for our country. Millions of Americans cast their vote every election day to make sure their voices are heard on who is going to run their country and what new policies they will bring with them. As stated in Anny Shin’s article, “Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history-making moment at the polls,” voting is a, “valuable privilege,” in which many don’t realize. In the United States, not every is allowed to vote, only 18-year old citizens are allowed to vote. However the number of 18-year olds voting is very low and this has been an issue in the political for quite a while. The concerns and desires of most millennials are not being expressed as many are not voting. Many, like the city of Takoma have proposed to allow 16 and 17-year olds to vote as they believe that voting among millennials will increase.

After the American Revolution, the colonies are now combined together and they must create a government that will satisfy the nation’s needs. This leads to the beginning of republicanism, where people are sovereign. However, the laws that were created after the revolution discriminated against several groups of people and this included women. Many women played a huge role in constructing the new nation but they were legally dead in the eyes of the law. Hence, the American Revolution was least revolutionary for women.

The Women’s March was a protest that took place in multiple cities across the world on January 21, 2017, the day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated. The march was organized for a number of issues going on surrounding the Trump administration. The participants advocated human, LGBTQ, reproductive, and women’s rights along with other issues such as immigration and healthcare reform, racial equality, religious freedom, and workers’ rights. The march took place because of the current social and political climate surrounding the inauguration of President Trump. This date was chosen because the inauguration of President Trump, who was threatening the rights of all the different groups. It gave everyone a new drive and force to push towards equality and freedom. This march shows how feminism has changed greatly over the years and it is a strong example of intersectional feminism. Feminism served as a unifying force in the past and it still is, as shown in such a large protest. Even more than basic rights and equality for oppressed groups, these protesters fought for reproductive rights, something falling under feminism and women’s rights. Trump’s campaign outlined the defunding and/or takeaway of healthcare and Planned Parenthood, two events sparking much debate and controversy among the citizens of the United States. Many different ethnicities, races, and religions have been targeted ever since Trump’s campaign began.

David Brooks, from the New York Times, asserts that the women’s marches will not be effective because they focus “on the wrong issues” such as climate change and equal pay (Brooks). These issues are for the upper-middle-class and do not center around diversity, but rather prioritize identity politics which is a tendency for people to form political alliances with those of the same religion, race, ethnicity, etc. Diversity plays a major role in America and it is important for everyone to embrace it. Brooks also says that another reason the women’s marches will not be a success is because there is “too big a gap” between the “marches and the Democratic and Republican Parties” (Brooks). In order for something to occur, a political party has to

The idea of peacekeeping and the maintaining of order began centuries ago. However, long ago women were not involved in this. As women did enter within 20th century their role was limited. As time passes, change takes place.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a time of great change in America. American men were fighting for their right to be free from an oppressive ruler 3000 miles away. They wanted to have their say about what went on in their own country. America won the Revolution and its freedom, but while this was going on something else was happening. Internally changes were coming about too during all this fighting. The Revolution was the catalyst for women to make progress towards freedom. Women were making economic and political gains to further women's rights.

This argument is wholly fallacious simply because whomever wrote this text and is in support of teenagers voting is trying to force equal influence. Forcing equality in a country that already allows all adults to vote is not only irrelevant, but the idea of forced equality is reminiscent of communism, whose entire structure is built on faulty systems and rules, like the one presented in the article. People who want to help make a change vote, people who don't want to, don't vote. It's as simple as that. The older people know their votes matter and the younger people don't. In the first paragraph of this article, the author writes that when we moved the voting age to 18, we heard silly arguments against it, implying every argument that is made against lowering it even further is irrational simply because the age was once lowered. Given this logic, and provided that it is somehow sound, one could say that 5-year-olds should be able to vote, because the arguments made against 18-year-olds clearly weren't accurate, so thus arguments against suffrage for children 13 years their junior are null and "silly" as

For example, Ben Miller, 16 year old Takoma Park City resident, believes that this opportunity to vote is in fact a “valuable privilege” bust as well admitted that “he has no burning issue motivating him”. If Miller, were to vote at an appropriate age, he would be able to experience the real world and view the outside issues that occur. Takoma Park officials had as well been dealing with low voter turnout, which eventually led to council member Tim Male questioning “How to get more voter turnout?”, which led to lowering the voting age. What official failed to notice, is that as long as there is no virtual punishment for not casting a vote, citizens will continue to neglect

The Civil Rights Movement began in order to bring equal rights and equal voting rights to black citizens of the US. This was accomplished through persistent demonstrations, one of these being the Selma-Montgomery March. This march, lead by Martin Luther King Jr., targeted at the disenfranchisement of negroes in Alabama due to the literacy tests. Tension from the governor and state troopers of Alabama led the state, and the whole nation, to be caught in the violent chaos caused by protests and riots by marchers. However, this did not prevent the March from Selma to Montgomery to accomplish its goals abolishing the literacy tests and allowing black citizens the right to vote.

young people have a voice and we can learn from them. They may not be as knowledgeable as most adults are but they are a newer generation and we can see the way they deal with life and how it can teach us to see it in our lives. Some teens want to vote, but they avoid it because of jury duty. It may seem childish but a lot of people do because they don't want to deal with the fact of having to go to a courthouse and have to make difficult decisions. For the people who complain about the government, but don't vote shouldn't be talking at all. That's like saying you want to buy a car

Imagine a time where teenagers are allowed to vote on important positions or issues that could possibly define our nation’s future. The average teenager may seem responsible, but would they be able to handle the responsibility of deciding our nation’s fate in the world as well as their own. In the article, “ Takoma Park 16-year-old savors his history making moment at the polls,” Annys Shin, who writes in depth about the historical event as well as shares valued opinions of those who participated in the making of this event, exclaims that the, “ Montgomery County community [was] the nation’s first to lower the voting age from 18 to 16.” This seems to be a test to determine if the nation should lower the voting age completely. However, this test shows varying results, but majority seem to shed some light on the fact that teenagers simply should not take part in voting. The average teenagers seem too young to be mature about issues, are uninterested in what major decisions are made by the government, and are simply being used by their parentals for an extra person support their own beliefs.