The story “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” Talks about the story of the Logan family, African-American farmers living in Mississippi in the 1930s. With Cassie being the narrator, the kids experience a lot of torture from white people. The story starts when they are walking to school. The books given were used by the whites and were dirty and old. Which made tidy Little Man frustrated. During the middle of the story, the logans shopped at a store called vicksburg which was owned by Mr. Granger. But they stopped going because Mr. Granger is going to make them pay a higher percentage of their cotton yields if they keep shopping there. Mr. Granger made them go shopping again. The book ends with T.J., a friend of theirs about to be lynched for the deaths of the Barnetts when the cotton fields catch fire and the community bands together to stop the fire from spreading. Cassie realizes that Papa set the fire that burned their cotton yields to save T.J.
Besides all of the small problems, the biggest problem in the story is actually Racial Injustice. Racial Injustice is the inequality between white people and black people. African Americans have black colored skin, so white people think of them as odd. Like a piece of art where you pay attention to that one thing, but they get negative attention. According to https://wwwbooks.edu, 60 percent of employed black women worked as domestic servants; today the number is down to 2.2 percent, while 60 percent held white- collar jobs in 1940. Cullors created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 and has written and spoken widely about the movement. Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights. Cullors integrates ideas from critical theory, as well as from social movements around the world, in her activism. You can be black, brown, tan, yellow, or white. But you must remember that you can’t judge a book by its cover!
Back in 1930 - 40, Black people couldn't do things those white people could do. On the bus, black people had to sit in the back of the bus while white ones sat in front. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act of protest was considered the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement. For decades, Martin Luther King Jr.'s fame overshadowed hers. King is remembered for his masterful oratorical skills, most memorably in his "I Have a Dream" speech. The speech includes this line: “I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be engulfed, every hill shall be exalted and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” Not just Black people need happiness, all people deserve happiness. No matter who they are. Black or not.
People must start understanding that everyone is the same. Everyone, not only Black deserves respect and care from others. People must accept who people are. Not by judging their appearance. Let’s look back to the painting. The odd in the painting meant that the painter wanted them to notice that the odd isn’t odd, it is unique. And It spreads the unique among others, making the whole painting special. It means that everyone is unique. That makes everyone the same. People should make kids go to the same school, sit, drink, read wherever they want. That way, people could interact with each other. Talk and know things. That is what people are born to do, that’s what people fight for: Living in happiness. Before God, we are all equally wise, and equally foolish. Every day is a fight to be free. You need people to help us grow wings. A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
This story tells us about the unfairness of skin color. Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. For example, You’re a human and there is a little lost kitten in the woods, it doesn't mean you should let it suffer and get killed. Equal is everyone getting the same thing. Fair is everyone getting what they need to be successful. We will always try to be fair, but it won't always feel equal. Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. You don't have the right to treat someone badly if they are different and odd. It's not their fault, maybe they were born in different and odd conditions. They are doing what they can to earn your respect and to live a peaceful life, just like yours. In that faith, and the values it inspires, I have been brought up to cherish a sense of duty to others, and to hold in the greatest respect the precious traditions, freedoms and responsibilities of our unique history.
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