Reflections on Tuesday for Thursday

While I was watching the Freedom Riders documentary and then listening to our conversation on Tuesday I couldn't help but compare those kids to me and our different experiences. they grew up in a time with open animosity and with the general understanding by the government and society that black people are lesser. On the other hand, I grew up in a time where while things are nowhere near perfect the general agreement is that all people are equal and should have the same rights. one statement in the documentary was when Bobby Kennedy said maybe one day we could have a black president, and all I could think about was that while the people in that time could hardly imagine having a black president, I grew up in my formative years with a black president. their actions in the past had made possible my experiences in the present. There was also the topic of the darker side of MLK and his actions at the time, how he was not quite the saint he appeared. this made me reflect on women and that time and whom they grew up with the ideas that they needed to be almost sub servant to there husbands and men in general, which also give men the idea that they can use women however they please such in the case of MLK. We today are still struggling to come to terms with women as equals but I am becoming an adult in the era of the Me Too movement and am apart of a budding generation of women who are more willing than ever to fight the patriarchy in part to those women of the past and their experiences. There are striking parallels and great differences between the past and our present.

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