Reflection On The Immortal Life Of 1951

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Perspective 1 Do you think that with all of the discrimination issues we have today there would be different from 1951? Well the public interpretation would be the same as 1951 because we have police officers still shooting what we call “black people”. If it was different then black people would be treated the same as white people. I think what we do is bully the different race people. My claim is that I believe there is no change from 1951 to 1976. In the book of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks they talk about how she was discriminated in a way of like show and tell. Like on page 13 she talked about how she was discriminated by going to like a colored bathroom. My reasoning is that I think back in the day they showed loud and …show more content…

I think that it would eventually get worse. Then black people are going to protest but it might end like it did the first time. I think that they could have told her sooner that she had cervical cancer as told in the articles. But of course the discrimination has stopped because of the Laws and the protesting as well as slavery, plus there are no more split water fountains or split bathrooms so for the most part this discrimination has stopped. I think that there are still some issues as like police officers shooting black people is races. There are still issues that cure that has started to rapidly accelerate. People still walk around and say bad words to black people. So back to my claim that I don’t think there is a change of discrimination in general from 1950 to 1976. If there is any changing at all it will be the split bathrooms and water fountains. Some main points are that people still walk around and call black people bad names and there is also police and their issues. My closing statement is that there would be no change from 1951 to

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