Civil Rights

What is passive resistance?

Passive resistance is a way to represent yourself and to do it by disputing something without violence.  It can be done by doing symbolic protests and/or many other demonstrations as long as violence does not exist.  There was one person in particular that everyone knows for using passive resistance and that would be Martin Luther King.  He used many ways to get his points a crossed without using violence and is a key example.  Another would be Judith Hand, he presented a strategy for abolishing war in general.

Photo #1

Who: Anti-segregation demonstrators

What: People being sprayed with a fire hose

Where: Birmingham

When: 1963

How: In a line and sprayed

Why: Believed something different than everyone else

Reaction:

Looking at this photo, the first word that comes to mind is pain.  The pressure that pushes the water out of fire hose is extremely strong and can feel like something is splitting you in half.  This is very inhuman and makes me shutter just thinking about being in that situation and feeling the pain of the hose.  Not only would I have not liked being sprayed, but I would have hated doing that to people that simply have a different belief than my own.

Photo #2

Who: Blacks and white policeman

What: Taunting the policeman

Where: In front of a department store

When: 1963

How: Singling out the policeman

Why: Because the color of the skin

Reaction:

When looking at this picture, curiosity sets in me.  I wonder if that policeman has the belief that whites are greater than blacks, or if he is just being put into the stereotype.  I realize that the blacks in this picture have hatred towards whites, which was put there by the whites themselves, but what if the policeman is just trying to do his job and sees the blacks as equals.  Now I realize the odds of that being true considering the time period and that it was said that the law was against them, but do you think the blacks would take this into consideration or would they careless what he thought?  These pictures leave me wondering more often than not.

Discrimination today:

I believe that there are many different types of discrimination today.  Most of it that happens today though I believe is much more modest and more of a self-belief.  There is discrimination not only on the skin color of someone, but also on gender.  I believe that there might be more discrimination on the gender side of things than color.  Maybe this is just what I see more, but this seems to be a bigger issue in my eyes.  Men and women are blaming each other for everything and anything these days.  It is being to become ridiculous. 

Pathos, Logos, Ethos:

1.      Strive for reaching a personal level with reader.

2.      Try to keep my opinion out of it and use facts.

3.      Make sure to bring in statistics if possible.