Thomas Paine described America as a land where every difficulty retires due to the Americans “simply” constructing their government on the principles of a society and the rights of man. Paine was partially correct. He was right when talking about the men in power at the time of construction of our government and those similar to. White men were in power at the birth of this nation are makeup of most of those in power today. On a daily basis, Americans have their rights violated while others take advantage of those not as fortunate as them, like the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments.
Some would say that all men, including women, all have the same rights and that America is fair and just. These same people would use the Constitution as…
In Texas, 25.4 percent of the misdemeanor defendants appear without counsel.” This problem has been going on for a very long time and continues today. Debtor’s prison, which was abolished in 1833, has made resurgence in another form. In order for states to collect cash for misdemeanors, they have hired private institutions to collect fines. On the surface this seems logical, but if one cannot pay the fine, they are put in jail and admittance into jail does not stop more fines from accumulating. For some who are affluent, it is easy to pay these fines; but, for others who are less fortunate they face jail time for their financial situation which is often times not even their fault. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments serve as an example of when American citizens were purposefully mistreated by those who should be trusted. The problem may have been corrected but it’s after effects are still manifested in those of the African American community who cannot trust doctors and use this situation as a reason to not trust them. Henrietta Lacks, an impoverished black woman had her rights violated by a doctor when he took a culture of her tumor cells without informing her or asking for her…
People have rioted against Uncle Sam, like the South during the Civil War and to some the Ferguson rioters. Often times people riot only because they feel they are unheard by their government and only want solutions to their problems. Riots have long been a part of American history, America itself was birthed from a riot against the tyrannical British power. How can a nation be calm when schools are terrorized, people of color are murdered by police officers with no consequences, marathoners are bombed, buildings are blown up and thousands of men and women are sent off to war to fight a war they sometimes don’t even understand? Clearly, America is not calm but is instead very tempestuous. Acts of free speech are labeled and attacked in the media as riots while true riots, like those at a mall in Kentucky on December 28th, 2015 or at a beer festival in Tampa, Florida in March, 2014 are ignored and laughed at instead of treated as the actual pointless and dangerous riots they…
