President Barack Obama meeting with citizens at a Town Hall in Fort Myers FL.
Politics has always been a boring and confusing subject for me. I have voted every four years since I was 18 for the President but beyond that, I rarely take the time to really learn the dynamics of our government. I do know however, that the citizens of any constituency in America has the democratic right to speak to their voted public officials. No one can be denied that unalienable right based upon race, religion, or sex.
In the book, A Lesson Before Dying, Jefferson's godmother felt that in order to request permission from the town's sheriff for Grant to visit Jefferson, she had to go through an upper class white man. A man, which the book did not distinguish as a public official, whose connection to the sheriff was in his color. Why was his godmother not allowed to talk to the sheriff?
Today in class, I pointed out that his godmother could not speak to the sheriff, who is an elected public official because she was black. Someone said, "well, I wouldn't be able to talk to the president." The difference between the two is we can't just meet the president because he's 1 person in a conglomerate of a multi million person nation. Of course we wouldn't be able to meet him individually because of national security and it would just be plain impossible. A person,however should not feel oppressed and denied the right to speak to an elected official because of the color of their skin.
Ms. Ellis pointed out that an unjust law is no justice at all in class today. I think from what little we read of this book, that Ernest Gaines did a terrific job of bringing to light in a nation today where we take our civil liberties for granted, the fight and sacrifices some people made to gain equality.
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