EDF2085-Reflection #6

It must have been really tough for the “Little Rock Nine” to consistently be rejected from a school. It must have been so difficult for those nine students that year to accept any one since no one decided to accept them in the first place. I can just imagine wanting to go to school to learn and not being allowed in because of your race. I really would not have liked to be one of those students at the time. I believe this was really unfair; they should have integrated those schools in Arkansas the same way almost all the other ones in the other states had began to do. I would have been so angry with the way they were treating me, especially with all the screaming and shouting as if I were some sort of alien. I wouldn’t have done what they did in the cafeteria because that’s just not something I was taught to do. But after so much frustration that had be held in for so long I’m not going to say I wouldn’t have done that because I probably would have if I was in their position. I probably would have just kept walking and tried to ignore them, even though this is easier said than done. I don’t think I would have shouted anything back because it really wouldn’t solve anything, they most likely would have just laughed. It must have been a terrible position that I would have not wanted to be in. I would have been super frightened to know that I needed to enter the school with armed guards. I wouldn’t have felt safe at all because you never know if you are going to be someone’s rival or target. I believe there was no reason to have armed guards with them to enter. What were they going to do that no other white student would not have done? Thankfully, the Supreme Court passed a law and the Little Rock School Board committee resigned and the case was solved after more than a few years. . Finally, after insisting and fighting for their rights they finally integrated the schools. I admire the “Little Rock Nine” because they did not give up; they kept fighting for their rights until they got them. They struggled a lot but in the end they got what they wanted and deserved. This is the problem nowadays. Most people have problems with something and it is super unfair and no one does anything about it because they were denied or rejected the first time.