People are more than ever aware of racial discrimination.
A civil conflict is boiling, and the outcomes are not. A recent event where Rose Parks denied to stand and officer a seat to a caucasian man lit up a real fire, and promptly the black community has been urged to boycott the bus system's activities. It has been a month for now, and the situation isn't looking any better. Society is anxious because no one knows how this situation will end up.
People are murmuring that history is about to be written in Alabama, but I do not understand because all I see is trouble.
Since last week, my friend from the different race has stayed away from me. It is as if I have am the leader of the movement, which is opposing "their people." It is truly a sad thing losing friends for reasons I cannot understand.
Since December 5, we have not attended school.
We are told that the busses are not functional and we cannot continue with the education until the animosity is ended. The black people of Montgomery have decided they will not board the buses until the discriminatory rule is removed (Gordon 1). I have also noted that my parents no longer go to work, and they no longer leave the house. Dad yesterday mentioned that he has to look for another job when things settle because his colleagues at work do not want to associate with him. Uncle Ben has mentioned that he can no longer cater for the medical expenses of his ailing wife since he is a driver in the bus system. His duties have since been terminated. One of my cousins intimated that the government had fined him for failing to charge at least 45 cents for dropping black people at work. He had to go to jail for three days. Upon release, they were attached to a church and narrowly escaped an attack white having a peaceful protest. After Colvin’s arrest, tension heightened for the first time in Montgomery (Burns 77).
The images we see of people being attacked have left us with fear.
It seems that even going to church is no longer safe. Recently, we heard another incident where a church was attacked with a petrol bomb, and it has now scared us. We no longer can walk freely in the streets, as the chances of an attack are high. My mom lost one of her jobs when the employer dismissed her for being part of the civil rights movement. The issues have cost people their jobs, we can no longer walk freely, we are not going to school, and worst of all our lives are in danger. African American’s began to protest about their treatment (Tisdale 5).
Since the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, we can no longer visit the parks as we used to do.
We have also noted that there is a lot of noise and we cannot study at night as usual. In fact, we do not study at all. Some of my friends are suspected to have engaged with gangs to look "cool" and earn some money to help their families. They are risking their lives all because of policies that have refused all people to enjoy life as citizens.
Works cited
"The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 50 Years Later." NPR. NPR, 01 Dec. 2005. Web. 27 Apr. 2017.
Burns, Stewart. Daybreak of freedom: the Montgomery bus boycott. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press, 2012. Print.
Tisdale, Rachel. The Montgomery Bus Boycott. New York: PowerKids Press, 2014. Print.
