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Environmental Movement and the Civil Rights Movement
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In the Black civil rights movement in the usa, we are able to learn something very important about the prospects from the environmental movement.
As the movements must be fighting for completely different subjects, the parallels are easy to see. The green movement has powerful champions, such as Al Gore, Agnes Denes and Amy Balkin. Probably the most extraordinary those who have ever existed fought for civil rights, like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Neither movement has simply sprung from the ground, but instead were a culmination of centuries of labor, of abolitionists such as W.E.B. Dubois or conservationists such as Henry David Thoreau.
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Exactly what do we take away from the fact that the movements offer a similar experience? The first is that we need fighters (you are able to call them artists, if you like) with bold ideas. African Americans waited of sufficient length for Whites at hand them their rights before bold people stepped up home plate with bold ideas. Boycotts, sit-ins, marches, along with other creatively organized resistance delivered justice to Blacks in America ultimately.
Their efforts succeeded in convincing government to determine their perspective. Black leaders didn't end racism, though. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated before he saw his vision of the world. The American Government did not end racism. It wasn't until our modern era, the 21st century, that race issues have recently started to fade. Why now?
It started by having an idea. A genius government official took a doll of white girl and a doll of a black girl and asked little black girls, "Which is much better?" Once the girls find the white dolls, the world was moved. Segregation in schools was ended. A brand new era of faculty reform slowly took place. Each year since, the idea of tolerance has been more engrained in the mind of every student in the United States. Our generation in Ny has had this idea (correctly) brainwashed into us: we are all equal. The result is a society with less racism as more generations are born.
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People become hard set in their ways as we grow older. During youth that ideas and preferences for life are fixed. The green movement needs to understand this. Changing the minds of adults is extremely hard, although necessary. Teaching kids when the best arrange for the way forward for the movement.
From elementary school, kids should try to learn how plants grow. There should be community or school gardens where children may feel this act of Creation on their own. They should learn the taste that belongs to them fruits and vegetables.
They must be taught in easy lessons how, with one of these gifts, a responsibility is given to them to take care of our planet. We are able to teach them to become disgusted through the idea of pollution. Their world will be cleaner than we are able to imagine plus they wouldn't even know how anyone could live another way. Are you able to emphasize with a slave owner, or understand why people would discriminate against a soft-spoken, well dressed black man? The concept is absurd.
This really is my art project. It's within our schools that change must come. In the end adults must do good to guide an example, it will all be for nothing as we don't start, today, teaching children how to love the world, and how to love the smell of growing life on the spring morning. (More)
