Assignment #12

Assignment: Due 12/17 Choose a passage from JFK, Reagan, or Obama, write it out and explain what it means.

I hope you all enjoyed the class. Thank you for your participation and your blog entries which were very interesting to read. The final exam will be posted on Blackboard 12/17. It will be an essay exam like the midterm.

"Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at its very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.

And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part - through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time." (Barack Obama)

The passage above was from Barack Obama back in 2008. He was talking about slavery and how the constitution had its ideal citizenship set already, therefore promising liberty, and justice  to people. Obama feels though as there is no liberty or justice because inequality still exist amongst all today. Wether is about race or wealth something is needed to be don't to create the equality that people need. There shouldn't be any if's or but's in our constitution. I agree with Obama with his speech on inequality because most people who are wealthy talk about how some poor are poor because they don't want to work, and the  rather answer to that is that we don't have the necessary resources to go to school and actually get a good laid back working paying job.