Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Comparison between 21th Century and 1800s

Slavery today in the 21th century has been abolished by the thirteen amendments, but it does not mean everyone gets along and is treated with respect by every other races. There are still many African Americans who get bad treatment from many other races in many different ways.  For example; there are a lot of African Americans who get discriminated from job opportunities, places, education and many other things. There are laws that have been created to protect African Americans from this treatment but there are still a lot of people who cannot be persuaded to give respect to African Americans. There are many people who still have the state of mind from the 1800s. Where they think that African Americans are low, not apart or humans, that they should still be equal to slavery etc. back in the 1800s African Americans didn’t have the rights to read, write, or learn in general, they didn’t have the rights to vote or become anything in life, now in the 21th century there is an African American president, everyone can vote by the age of eighteen, and everyone is entitled to a free public education. For the most part, in the 21th century, slavery is abolished. African Americans are free. They have the same rights as other people.

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