Introductory post
My name is Amber Taylor this is my third semester here at CWE. My concentration is in childhood studies and I will be graduating in the spring of 2018. I currently am a lead teacher teaching three year olds everything that they need to know to be successful emotionally, physically, and academically. I enjoy my job because it gives me an insight look of what it’s like to run your own classroom. I always knew that I would either be working with children or either animals. Children and animals are two of the things in life that I have a passion for. I grew up around dogs in the island of Trinidad and Tobago. Even though I am an American, I was raised in Trinidad for four years, from the age of three to seven. If I wasn’t working with children a veterinarian would have been my second option. My interest for this class is to learn more about the rights of woman and what can we do as a society to make things more justified for us females in society.
Human rights should be rights that are inherent to all human beings disregarding your nationality, the place of your residence, your sex, ethnic origin, color and religion. In 1789, article one of the Declaration of the rights of man and citizen proclaimed, “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.” Thinking about this statement in relation for human rights today puts in a lot of question. Back in 2015 two athletes were convicted in two different sexual assault cases. The outcomes were different and a lot of people believe that those outcomes have to do with race.
Brock turner who was a former Stanford swimmer received a six month sentence for sexually assaulting a female behind a dumpster; he is a white twenty year old man. In another sexual assault football player Brian Banks was accused of rape at the age of sixteen years old, but he was tried as an adult, and received more than five years in prison. He also got another five years on parole for being a sex offender. All of Brian’s accomplishments in school were as well taken from him; Brian Banks was a black sixteen year old young man. Relating back to human rights today, article one of the declaration of rights of man stated that “ men are born and remain free and equal in rights” but as you can see those rights does not apply to just any man in our time today. The white man has more privilege in the justice system than a black man do.
