The man came with nightsticks, teargas, horse, and whatever hatred they carried in their heart for "blacks". " For centuries African-Americans have tried to make a stand against the abuse of the white man, with every battle they won they thought they would overcome; but they didn't. The men and women that marched on March 7, 1965 to talk to the governor about voting rights across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and were beaten for their determination. They were beaten for having hopes and dreams of equality, they were beaten for their pursuit of happiness. The white man has humiliated, denied, and demeaned the value of human life for their superiority.
Marches, strikes, protests like on Bloody Sunday were all made for the benefit of the African-American people's future. Many of the opportunities afforded by the these people of color risking life and limb many of us take for granted which is not only unfair to them, but to ourselves. We the "minorities" whether black, hispanic, female, and handicapped are as much human as the "majority". Everyone wants to be loved, everyone wants to be free, and everyone has a purpose.
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