Carter's Blog

DALL·E 2 AI Photo Of Thomas  Jefferson Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the ideals of our founding father, Thomas Jefferson. Written in our Declaration of Independence, it serves as an example of unalienable rights deserved by all humans. But how do we define humans? Because the Negros shipped over from Africa working in the fields werent conidered human. So, to our founding fathers, they didn't deserve rights. Fast forward to 2023, where all people, no matter their race, religion, gender, or sexuality, are protected by the Constitution. Which is a lie; our founding fathers wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to protect themselves, white men. Race is a protected class. The fourtenth amendment to the Constitution made it illegal to discriminate on race following the Civil War. However, there has been no amendment to the Constitution to state that discrimination on sexuality is illegal. So, when we look back at our history and see same-sex marriage and inter...

"And don't think you gonna know when the ends gonna be Cause if you knew that little piece of information Then wed be calling you God And as you see, baby, we aint" - Slanguage:  Performed by Pika Whitman Nobody knows what the future has in store, and the further you look, the more uncertain things get. But to make the best guess, you must look at the past. Sometimes, history is doomed to repeat itself, or we can learn from it and move toward a better society. We take two steps forward to take one step back, such as womens rights. We are making the workplace equal, closing the pay gap, and putting fewer scripts on them. However, women's rights to abortions are being taken away daily. If we look at the history of LGBTQ rights in America, we see that we have come a long way in getting society to accept and respect LGBTQ individuals. Then, in 2022, we have a slew of Dont Say Gay laws that became state laws.  In both of these scenarios, it was mostly culturally acceptable...