Response to Haiti

I feel terrible for Haiti! The reason I feel extremely terrible for Haiti is because they got struck by a strong earthquake which the level of the magnitude was 7.0(which is very strong.)
A lot of buildings got knocked down including the hospital, schools, restaurants, stores, The President House, and etc. Can you believe it? That's sad! Many, many people were killed and dead bodies are lying on the streets. People who are still alive are trying to find food and shelter for survival. Haiti was already poor before the earthquake. Now since the earthquake happened, they have nothing left. The earthquake destroyed everything around them. Depressing, right? I hope Haiti will be better sooner or later! :[

Civil Rights Issues Today (Con'd)

Today, people do not want blacks and whites to marry. According to some texts, In 1967 the case Loving vs. Virginia said "under our constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State." People claim it's not racist. It's just they don't think it's right. They want one race to marry their own race. For example, Blacks marry Blacks, Asians marry Asians.
Also, In integrated schools, blacks and whites decides to segregate themselves from each other. There were very little groups of friends of whites and blacks. For example, at the lunchroom, blacks sit on one table while whites sit on the other. Also in AP classes most of the people in there are white and only 3 blacks. The 3 blacks decided to sit next to each other in the front. In classes that needs improvement, mostly blacks are in it and barely any whites.
In my opinion, this needs to change. Even though blacks and whites are not harming each other, they need to learn how to get along and how great it is for blacks and whites to be friends.

Civil Rights Issues Today

In my opinion I think that for the most part America has become less segregated. In two high schools so far segregation is still not solved. Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is in a way integrated. Different races attend the school but right away you could see that the students are separate. In the classes, the Black kids sit on one side and the White kids on the other. During their lunch period, the White kids ate outside and the Black kids ate inside. Also in the A.P., class there were only three Black girls and the rest were White kids. Most of the kids that need extra help were Black males. Recently a school in Montgomery, Alabama named County High School had a completely segregated prom. One night, on a Friday, the White kids had their prom first. The next night, on Saturday, the Black kids had their prom. I guess that basically it's improving little by little but there is still a long way before the South completely shows that they are not segregated, if they haven't accepted it yet.

Timeline Relationship Summary

It all started when The American Civil War ended and the Union also known as the North won. This led to the Reconstruction ,which atempted to reunite the country but the South did not want to agree with the North. Around this time the 13th 14th and 15th amendments were passed. These amendments stated that for every citizens there was no more slavery. Everyone had the right to vote and no one can take away your as an American. The South did not like the new laws so they found a way to get around them and invented the Jim Crow laws that separated people by race. Later on, there was a case called "Plessy V. Ferguson" where Plessy was accused for sitting in the white passenger car when he was black. He didn't want to move so he got arrested. He use the 14th Amendment to defend himself. At the end of the case, the judges decided that separate but equal didn't violate the constitution.
Later on Brown vs. Board of Education argued that separate was not equal. Because of this, some schools like Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas decided to integrate. 17 students were chosen to attend Central High School but only 9 students were enrolled. During the 1950's through 1970's things were getting worse as time passed. Martin Luther King Jr. called for whoever wanted to accompany him in the march that he lead in Birmingham, Alabama. Mostly kids came and marched around, protested, and sung the song "freedom". This was called the Children's March of 1963.

Timeline: Reconstruction-Today.

1865: Civil War ended. This war was between the Union and the Confederacy to free slaves. The Union won.
1865-1965: Jim Crow Laws. These were laws that kept people separate by race.
1865-1880: Reconstruction; Reconstruction tried to reunite The North and The South, put the country back together. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were added to the Constitution.
13th Amendment-No more Slavery.
14th Amendment-If your a citizen no one can take your rights away.
15th Amendment-Every race or color will be able to vote.
1892-1896: Plessy vs. Ferguson case. Argued that separate was equal.
1949: Texas was forced to integrate it's law schools.
1950-1970: The highest peak of The Civil Rights Movement. This is when most action was taken and when the Civil Rights Movement was most affective.
1954: Brown vs. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas and went to the Supreme Court. Argued that separate is NOT equal.
1957: Seventeen African American students were selected to attend Central High School. After a meeting with the superintendent, only nine students decided to enroll. They were known as the "Little Rock Nine."
1963: Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. This march was made of mostly Black children that wanted freedom and equality.
1971-2009: Montgomery, Alabama County High School has held segregated proms since they integrated.
2009: Central High School is segregated by preference and habit not by force or racism. They decide to segregate themselves.

The Achievement Gap Response (Con'd)

The statistic that surprised me the most in The Achievement Gap is Black and Latino kids are 2-3 times more likely to have below basic skills in reading and math. I wonder why couldn't they be like Whites and Asians? What do we have that they don't? What this makes me think about is that Blacks and Latino might not be as focus as White and Asians in school probably because of their surroundings at home or they aren't being treated well by there parents. There parents might not be pushing them at school and just letting the Blacks or Latino kids do whatever they want. Like they can play games or watch T.V or hang out with their friends after school and their parents might not care. Some might but they won't be as strict as whites and Asians parents about homework. But in my opinion, I don't think this is truth because we all have the same brain.

The Achievement Gap Response

My response to The Achievement Gap is that I doubt some things. Like the statistic that said that high school graduates live up to 7 years longer than high school dropouts. To me that's kind of exaggerating. For some cases it could be because people make certain decisions like becoming drug addicts, or being involved in illegal activities, instead of changing and becoming better, for a comfortable future. It makes me wonder why choose wrong if you know the consequences and are taking a risk of a worse future.