Think

Here is something else that I have been thinking about lately: society over corrects itself. Have you ever thought about that before? For example, take the Femininst movement. It started out with women not being able to vote or participate in politics. We we expected to stay home and have children; working was a man’s job. But then women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton stepped in, with the support of many other women across the country, and she changed the way that women are viewed. Today, girls all across the country are told by their parents, “You can do it” and “You can be whatever you want to be.” And look at the current enrollment in colleges and high schools. Females make up more than 50 percent of students, and this number is increasing. And when I look at most of the Honors and AP classes in my school, at least two-thirds of the students in them are females.
I think this over-correcting thing happened with racism, too; for years, African Americans were oppressed, but they created change as well. I think hostility towards African Americans has greatly decreased. Take, for example, all the support Obama is getting. Now, I see more racism coming from blacks towards whites. I have met people who have just assumed that you are racist. But we will never overcome racism if people expect it.
It’s just something to think about.