Civil Rights Movement

Passive Resistance is a civil act of disobedience aimed at creating social change or reformation.  It is not violent and aims to cause disruption.  This act of disobedience usually condemns violence in hopes to incite disruption without getting someone hurt.  Martin Luther King is kind of the face of this in America.  We all think of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's.  Gandhi also practiced and advocated passive resistance against Britain in the first half of the 20th century.

This photo is a good picture of passive resistance.  It almost looks as is this is another day on the job for the officers.  It seems pretty cold, they're just dragging another human along.  I would have a hard time not doing anything in retaliation if I were the man being dragged.  Unfortunately I couldn't find any background information on this photo.

This photo is disgusting.  I'm amazed that people were able to take this kind of punishment.  It also makes me think about the simply rude acts of those against equality.  If these people would protest civilly, one would think that the opposition would try to reason civilly.  instead the oppressors just resorted to violence, this almost seems backwards.  Unfortunately I couldn't find anything on the context or background of this photo.

I think there is still discrimination today in many forms.  There is racial discrimination, sexism, discrimination against other cultures, and even reverse discrimination.  Many woman make a significantly less amount of money doing the same job.  There are still white supremacists out there.  I think that as we deal with different forms of discrimination we must be careful not to fall into reverse discrimination.  For example, requiring companies to interview X amount of minorities, or giving more scholarship money to minority groups.  In our attempt to right the wrongs of the past we cannot let the pendulum swing too far one way.  We must reconsider our actions of former days and not recommit those errors; while simultaneously making sure we don't fall into those mishaps again; this time under the guise of correcting the past.