Less known Revolutions

Recently, we have been disscusing the Latin American revolutions; more specifically the revolutions in Brazil, Mexico, and Gran Columbia. To study this the class broke up into 3 groups nd each studied one of the revolutions. But first we looked at the somewhat rediculous social classes in these areas and the combinations one could make with the different races, and also how about 1% of the populaiton has all the power. 

The picture above is the timeline my group created, noting all of the important events in the Gran Columbian revolution. All of the revolutions shared some attributes, and all of them were very different. For one, all the countries were revolting for independance from another group of people. For another, all the countries were trying for idependance from a European country. However, they were not all the same. Not all the revolutions called for a constitution. Also, not all the revolutions were against the same social group of people. While Mexico and Gran Columbia were against the upper 1% of the population, Brazil was not.

Today, while fights against race has come far, it has not come far enough, in my opinion. While yes, people of other races have many more rights, they still are far from equal. In recent months, there have been cases of police shooting young men of color for mostly petty theft. In all of these cases, the young men died, and through most accounts of the event, thee person had already surednered. While  not all of theese events may hae been based of of race, far too often does this happen to people of color, and they rarely happen to those not of color.