History's Relevance By Heather Holick

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Some of this is my opinion, and some of you will not agree with it. However, that is okay because we are all entitled to our own opinions.

   Recently, in my history class we have been discussing the civil war. In 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops marking the end of the American Civil War. A war fought for freedom and equality for all. After the war the 14th amendment of the US Constitution was passed. The Amendment states that all citizens are guaranteed "equal protection of the law."  155 years later and this amendment is as relevant as ever.
   Amongst the pandemic the murder of George Floyd has lead to an outbreak of protesting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The protesting quickly spread nationwide to cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and many more. The former MPD officer Derek Chauvin was taken into custody and charged for the murder of George Floyd. While the other three officers that were bystanders of the incident have also been fired.
   "Equal protection of the law" meaning that all citizens are guaranteed the same rights, privileges, and protections. The event that took place and what happened to George Floyd was a total violation of the 14th amendment of the Constitution. The way he was treated was a complete abuse of power by the police officer and nothing like that should ever happen again. On all platforms of social media posts read "black lives matter." I'm going to be completely honest, I always thought that statement was flawed because "all lives matter." I didn't feel there needed to be a separate statement that only included black lives. Recently, my opinion on this has changed. All lives do matter and will always matter but I realized that the statement "black lives matter" wasn't to exclude everyone else and say that only their lives matter. The statement is used to bring awareness to a group/race of people that have been and are still being oppressed in society.
   As a country we need to realize that race, gender, sexuality, and religion does not define a person. We are all equal. We are all human. We as a society have to do better to prevent actions like this from occurring in the future.
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  1. DanielleJune 1, 2020 at 10:29 AM

    You were very mature in writing this and I'm happy that you are open to continuing to learn and grow.

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