Wanjiru

10/27/2012.

We are all born in different communities from different families. Most of us face a lot of difficulties when growing up for example,we face discrimination from other people or sometimes the places we are born experience political instability which instills fear in us as we grow up and as a result we leave in fear and pain throughout our lives. Some of us sometimes don’t even have the courage to express ourselves. Situations like these lower a lot of people's self esteem and we find ourselves not being able to express ourselves. This is wrong and should be addressed in the community. We have our own rights that should defend us as human beings.

For example in the movie The Help by Tate Taylor,we see that Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson are maids working for white people and raising their kids in the early 60's. They face a lot of discrimination when working as maids for example they receive very low wages and are treated like outcasts by their employers. They are not allowed to use the same toilets and bathrooms as their employers because they think they are dirty. Minny Jackson takes the courage goes against the rules and as a result she is fired from her job. We see this women and their colleagues fighting for their rights even if it means loosing their jobs as maids by helping a young writer by the name skeeter to come up with a book that reflects what they go through and how they feel about it.

Similarly Martin Luther king;a pastor,the youngest Nobel peace prize winner and a strong worker of civil rights for members of his race fought strongly for the equality of people in America whether black or white. For example he lead a bus boycott in 1955 that was to eliminate segregation in buses and fight for equality between Negroes and whites which was successful approved by the court but got him into trouble where he was arrested and his home bombed. He also fought for the eligibility of Negroes to vote. He was arrested several times...