Chloe Namdar
Writer '19
March 21st is South African Human Rights Day. Although the United States commemorates humans' natural rights on a day later in the year, it is still an important event to reflect on society and its equality that has been recently achieved all year round. Society has made great strides towards equality in the past century as women and blacks have been granted the right to vote and are now perceived as the human beings they are. Women earn practically the same as men for the same job, and they are able to pursue their own goals for their professions. Junior Kimberly Ebrani says that “women are equal to men and shouldn't try to be greater than them.” However, some disagree and think that some discrepancies remain in true equality. For example, many women fear for the future of America through Trump’s presidency and do not know how laws against discrimination will progress, and these issues reign especially important to working women.
In Great Neck, some fail to see through the veil of discrimination that some other oppressed groups may be experiencing around them; however, some manage to catch discrimination when it occurs. Someone who is not being oppressed can relate to someone being discriminated based on gender, religion, race, and some can note from an outside perspective, as well as having his own similar experiences. Junior Andrew Hakimian comments on this discrimination gap by saying that “as a white male, he cannot speak for the struggle women specifically face,” but he “recognizes the fear women and minorities face under Donald Trump’s new presidency through protests such as the Women’s March.”
All people clearly want to have freedom and their deserved rights. The first step is to recognize when discrimination occurs. The next is to actually make changes and mend the wounds in society that caused this. It is important to recognize the freedom in some ways that humans are granted, as well as the ways it can be improved to make America great and equal.
Writer '19
March 21st is South African Human Rights Day. Although the United States commemorates humans' natural rights on a day later in the year, it is still an important event to reflect on society and its equality that has been recently achieved all year round. Society has made great strides towards equality in the past century as women and blacks have been granted the right to vote and are now perceived as the human beings they are. Women earn practically the same as men for the same job, and they are able to pursue their own goals for their professions. Junior Kimberly Ebrani says that “women are equal to men and shouldn't try to be greater than them.” However, some disagree and think that some discrepancies remain in true equality. For example, many women fear for the future of America through Trump’s presidency and do not know how laws against discrimination will progress, and these issues reign especially important to working women.
In Great Neck, some fail to see through the veil of discrimination that some other oppressed groups may be experiencing around them; however, some manage to catch discrimination when it occurs. Someone who is not being oppressed can relate to someone being discriminated based on gender, religion, race, and some can note from an outside perspective, as well as having his own similar experiences. Junior Andrew Hakimian comments on this discrimination gap by saying that “as a white male, he cannot speak for the struggle women specifically face,” but he “recognizes the fear women and minorities face under Donald Trump’s new presidency through protests such as the Women’s March.”
All people clearly want to have freedom and their deserved rights. The first step is to recognize when discrimination occurs. The next is to actually make changes and mend the wounds in society that caused this. It is important to recognize the freedom in some ways that humans are granted, as well as the ways it can be improved to make America great and equal.