Cruelty to thou who art different

Cruelty to thou who art different

Black history month

History...history is what makes us...our ancestors...our parents, but everyone has always had one thing in common, we are all human.

But it's disappointing to know that not long ago everything was different...not long ago some humans were slaves...not long ago nothing was fair. Being a white female, I would be at home learning how to clean and cook and look after children, but not long-ago black children would be forced away from their families and sent to live on cruel plantations.

When I was 6 years old my parents divorced, I was devastated but the thing that kept me going was the fact that thousands of other people have suffered so much more than me.

Martin Luthor King once said...we are not makers of history, we are made by history.

This quote...is gripping it has me in a spiral...what did he mean by this? I think I might have an answer, I think it means that what we do now can affect those in the future.

Not long ago, life was like a never-ending war you think it might be over but then there's another blitz

I just feel speechless when I think about the fact that real living people were slaves! And even now some countries still use slaves, have they not learned from the past?

But not everything was about the slavery there was so much unfair things they did to black people. Believe it or not, a simple rule about sitting on a bus sparked hundreds of intense protests. Rosa Parks is a famous person who influenced black people to rise and fight for their rights as a human being, her legacy, her resilience changed the world, by simply sitting on a bus.

In 1849 something happened, something big, Harriet Tubman a slave working in Maryland escaped through resilience but not long after she returned to Maryland to save her family it wasn't long until she decided she was going to make many more trips to save more of the helpless slaves. She made 30 trips saving at least 70 people each time...now that's what I call a legend.

Not long ago, school was only offered to a certain group of people rich, white, males. Not long ago, this was what education was like, bias, and cruel.

Will this wave of prejudice never end?

Not long ago, slavery and unfairness, now its violent racism. But what are they doing to stop it? Obviously, it's not enough, it will never be enough, will it? But that's not the point here, the point is that even when nothing was changing, Rosa Parks, martin Luthor king, Michelle Obama, Harriet Tubman...

They made their change and now it's time to make ours

-Georgina Pollard,

Longdean school

(born 4th of June 2013)