meritocracy

i do believe that if you work hard enough you can do anything you want.

in the class divided when the kids were in the superior eye color for the day they did better on the test than the day when they were in the inferior eye color. but i think this is different because they just found out they are not as good as the other kids so they were stunned and distaracted on the test. its like if your girlfriend just broke up with you than you had a math test you probably wont do as good on that test than what you would've.

so i dont think someones skin color can impact there performance these days. but it may have back in the sixties when they were distracted by all the stuff going on

king vs x

martin luther king and Malcom X were near complete oppisates in their methodology.

martin luther king believed in non violence and civil disobidience which started movements like the lunch counter sit ins

malcom x believed in "by any means neccessary" just doing anything to end racisim including violence

i believe Kings methods were more effective because his actions were extremely effective but he wasnt really doing anything wrong like the lunch counter sit ins. black people were just sitting at counters , they werent phyically hurting people like Malcom X's followers. when your using violence it makes you look really bad as race so malcom x could have also been hurting themselfs in some ways. plus Malcom x pretty much admitted that kings ways were better when he got back from Mecca and converted to MLK-esque methodology of non violence

Jena six

that is a crazy story in many ways!

1. 10,000 people got together at one time for one cause


2. it was all for 6 kids!

this does have some similarities to the little rock 9 in that a whole city was upset on the treatment of a few kids at a school. but now the story is flipped.

in little rock 9 the city was furious that black kids were now going to the school

and now in the jena 6 the city was mad that the black kids arent getting treated better- theyre on the black kids side now.

the people in the civil rights movement would be proud of what the protesters are doing in Louisianna right now

I AM

I am the lunch counter sit in


I wonder if ill ever be equal


I hear hatered from the mountain top


I see no change


I want equallity


I am the lunch counter sit in





I pretend im allowed to sit here


I feel hostillity


I need love and good will at all times


I worry this will never end


I cry internally to show no weakness


I am the lunch counter sit in





I understand they dont wont me here


I believe we are equal


I dream we will live together in one race


I try to ignore it


I hope this will come to an end


I am the lunch counter sit in