Mississippi

Yesterday was a very powerful day and it evoked a lot of emotion and conversation. Yesterday in the morning we went to Medgar Evers house and saw with our own eyes where he was assassinated. Which make you think about how much hatred there would have to be to take someone's life just because they have a different skin color. Mr. Evers was not the first that this had been done to either; there is a long list of men, women and children who died just because they wanted to make a difference. It speaks to how often shootings had happen when we saw the sons' bed on he floor and not raised so that they did not get shot at. So they had no problem killing children and that makes your realize that this is an ongoing fight that must continue through this generation. 

Next we went and saw where Emmett Till supposedly flirted with a white woman and because just that he was brutally slain in hatred. This building although the was not a good place it was not represented well, it was run down and dirty and only, yet there is a refurbished gas station next door and  it seemed like. No one cares about that part of history. This also shows how far we need to go to get justice. 

Mark Alston, Baltimore City College