I am learning many different aspects of the United States history during Dr. Hendricks' s classes. Each class is like a flood of new information and knowledge. Most of the time, history is told by winners not for losers. In our classes, however, we can see the other side of facts. For instance, there are questions concerning Justice and Liberty. To respond it, we should think about important matters as pledge, allegiance, republic and cohesion. African-Americans, Indians, latino-Americans and others , all of them, have no the same rights or treatment. Until today, since a long time, lots of people, in this country have been working for the accomplishment of the American Constitution that says everyone is equal under the law.
I am sure that so many efforts bring good results. We could see how things work well when the official institutions really worried about the welfare of people. The Cherokee Reservation in North Carolina is a typical exemple of this. There, the remmanescents of ancient Cherokee tribes live in a respectful way of living. They have their civil rights preserved, staying togheter and raising their offsprings with dignity and honor. They are free to handed down their culture to the future generation in harmony with the new habits and behavior.
Sad pages of American History shows the slavery with all its cruelty. Black people beeing treatened like non-humans by those white and rich ones. Economy must goes increasing, agriculture had to expands with the slave's hardworking, and the whites ought to be served by a dark-skin women or men. The Civil War happend because of the insanity of hard minds that never gave to the slaves, the right to choose what to do with their lives. Although, at least one voice raised in favor of the freedom. benjamin Banneker, boldly and corageously wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, questioning
some issues.. Then, the long jorney for Justice and Liberty started to be stepped. It goes on untill the day that all men will be indeed created equal.
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