Diskrimination: Taliban og borgerrettighedsbevægelsen

Discrimination Teenagers under the TalibanImagine that suddenly you had to rip all your posters off your bedroom walls, put all your CD's, videos, comics and books in boxes and hide them in the button of cupboards. If you were a girl, imagine if you suddenly had to throw all your makeup. Stop going to the cinema, stop going to swim and stop going to school or college. imagine that you having to cover your body in a hot, burqa and having to watch public executions. This is exactly what happened to 16-years old Latifa who was a teenager in Kabul at the time when the Taliban came to power. It all began on the day she saw the body of the Afghan president Najibullah hanging in Arina Square in Kabul. Instead of giving in to depression, Latifa started a secret school in her home where she thought younger children, and started keeping a diary.Goodbye to freedom She loved her little pet canary but she was forced to open the cage and set her little bird free. She says in her diary that as she watched the bird fly away, she watched her own freedom going whit him. Two days later the Taliban banned all dogs and cats and other household pets, pop music, films, cameras and even whistling kettles.EscapeLatifa's mother was working secretly as a doctor, and the chance for the family to escape came when she was invited to Paris to talk about the problems facing Afghan women. Latifa and her mother and father went to France and found a safe home, but their home and possessions in Kabul were completely destroyed.Martin Luther KingWho is he?Childhood: Martin Luther King was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was the sonby pastor Martin Luther King Sr., and Alberta Williams King. He was born in a normalresidential area. He attended an old school because he was black. There were only blacks at the school andclasses were very crowded. Most of the children were rowdy and noisy, but Martin was alwaysquiet. He made no fuss, but when something was funny when he laughed with. He likedschool, and his favorite subject was math. In social studies teacher hours seemed sometimes studentstell about some famous people as they had read about, and as always chose Martin AbrahamLincoln. Abraham Lincoln was president of the USA, he had made a speech, the Gettysburg speech, whichMartin always said aloud. Lincoln had spoken of America would be good for everyone,including blacks.Before Martin had started school, he had toyed with the two boys who lived on the same road ashim. They had the same interests and therefore they had fun together. But when they werebegin school, the two boys go to a school only for whites, and Martin would go on one for blacks.When Martin one day looked at them and asked their parents if they were home, heafvide that they could not play anymore because he was black.Racism before and after Martin Luther King:Before Martin Luther King was born, and throughout his life there were plenty of racismin America. The whitealways had the best schools and best of everything. When we drove by buses and there were no moreplaces left, it was always the black people who stood up, because if there was a black man and aWhite would have space, so should the black man move. It was only the whites who had couldall the best jobs, the president was white, the priests were white and most high positions were occupied bywhites. The best job that blacks could have had such. being Baptist pastor who wasMartin's father. MartinLuther did not like all racial segregation, so he fought his entire life.In the years just before and after Martin Luther died, introduced new laws in the U.S..John F. Kennedyintroduced on 11 June 1963 a law that made it forbidden to separate races apart, which meant thatwhites and blacks could attend the same schools, work the same places and be together at allpublic places.Martin Luther King had also fought for voting rights for all, and in AugustHe fought for:Voting rights:There was made a law in the United States in 1870 that made that blacks could vote ifthere were elections. In manyStates might not like the law, so when there were few blacks and would vote, they were sent awayfrom the voting place, or they were not allowed to take the reading test which should be passed tocould vote. Reading test was also only made to prevent African Americans from voting.There were also other requirements to be met in order to vote you had to pay tax elections and prove thatthey had a house. These were the two things that Martin was up against.Race separationMartin Luther King lived during a time when that was filled with racism in America. Whites and blacks did not go onsame schools, did not eat at the same restaurants and was not at the same toilets. It was always thewhites who had the best schools and newest toilets.Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela led the African National Congress, a black liberation group that opposed South Africa’s white minority government and apartheid. Mandela was initially opposed to violence, but after a massacre of unarmed black South Africans in 1962, he began advocating acts of sabotage against the government.In 1962, Mandela began a twenty-seven year stay in prison. Most of his confinement was spent during hard labor at the notorious Robben Island maximum-security prison.During his imprisonment, Mandela became a symbol of the anti-apartheid movement among South Africa’s black population and among the international community that opposed apartheid. Mandela rejected several government offers to allow him to leave prison on the condition that he renounce violence. Mandela was released from prison and instantly became an international celebrity.Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 with F.W. deKlerk, South Africa’s last white president. Their combined efforts ended apartheid and brought about a peaceful transition to nonracial democracy in South Africa.Three years after his release, South Africans of all races were allowed to vote for the first time in a national election. They selected Mandela as their president, giving him 62% of the vote. The same person who was once was a symbol of black resistance in South Africa later eventually because the nation’s first black president.