Opinions

Society, Since Society has been around for many years, some have no opinion or don’t take notice of society at all, and see how much of an impact society has taken. For some parts, society can definitely be a good thing, however society has had a much worse impact then one may have noticed. Society has abolished public differences in people; how so? Society has told us for years the proper way to participate in some events, and a clear example is what each gender society had assigned them to do. Girls must like one thing, and Boys must like another, and a cross between those interests turns you into that opposite gender. Society can also alter opinions as well. If one group with a lot of power or influence has one opinion, which may not necessarily be wrong or right, chances are that one may not think over how he/she feels and simply agree with them. Let’s take a little trip to the past, back during segregation when it reached its peak, which was around the 1960s. This was after World War II, after Hitler and the persecution of the Jewish people, and many other people. A lot of people were outraged by the fact the Hitler allowed the persecution of these Jewish people and others in the Holocaust, since the Jewish were equal in their standards. Now keep in mind that this occurred before segregation ended. Anyone can say the Jewish people are equal to everyone else and that no one can be mistreated, but what about the blacks during segregation? The entire thought process of the treating of blacks is all really just a joke. Are they really black? There are definitely people who are close to brown, but no one on the face of the Earth has ever reached the color of black. To say after the Holocaust that everyone is equal is pretty contradicting to some people in the United States during segregation, since this didn’t stop every white person from accepting the Jim Crow laws. Now lets on to the reason for this way of thinking. For someone who was not born around the segregation time does not understand the reason for this contradiction, and will understand even better then the ones, who witnessed these events, after this reading. Picture this: You’re white; it’s around the segregation time, and the Jim Crow laws are in affect at this very time. Blacks are sitting in the back of busses; blacks have separate bathrooms that are filthy, only whites can drink out of fountains, and blacks get the outdated textbooks which came from whites. You have a neighbor who is black, and another neighbor who is white. The white neighbor always walks by and insults the black neighbor, and calls them racist names. This person can’t vote, go to the same school as you, and is not even allowed to eat at some places like you can. Through out your life, you notice this pattern with everyone with dark skin, and every one with the similar skin color of you that you have ever known have a grudge against black people. To them, they are the trouble makers, and the next best thing. Now let’s think about your opinion. What are you going to think? Here we have everyone with negative opinions towards blacks, blacks being mistreated, segregation, and just the fact that these are laws in the US that the blacks have to obey. Your teachers, parents, neighbors, co-workers, and strangers have all reminded you of how bad blacks are, and how inferior they are. Well, this was how many kids were adapted to, and that’s what sometimes allowed them to accept it. In other words, Society tells a lot of things. This topic can get as in depth as the mistreating of the blacks, and to what’s wrong and right, and can get as simple as boys can only play football, and not soccer, and girls have to like pink. The overall lesson that’s trying to be taught is to have your own opinion. It may be extremely radical to the point where you might loose a friend. Any friend that’s lost because of an opinion was not really a friend from the start, and society should never alter an opinion. The reason opinions exists is because nothing is right. If something was right, there would be absolutely be no opinion. If something was right, why would there be people objecting? It’s all about their opinion, and the way an opinion becomes right is through Society.

Written by Daniel LaForce