American Flag Stands For Tolerance By Barbara Jordan

The first collection of the textbook revolved around relating and interacting with other people, and is inspired by Barbara Jordan’s quote, “We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.” All of these texts involve people not treating others the way they would like to be treated, essentially breaking the golden rule, whether it by discrimination, disagreement with opinions, and going by tradition even if you’re going to hurt someone in doing so. To begin with, in American Flag Stands for Tolerance, Ronald J. Allen talks about the release and dropping of charges of Gregory Lee Johnson, a man who burned an American flag during a government protest in 1984. The newspaper editorial supports the Supreme

In this story, a white lawyer in 1930s Alabama must defend an African-American man accused of raping a white woman. At first, the black man’s case doesn’t seem to stand a chance against the word of a white woman. However, as the trial goes on, it appears that Tom Robinson, the defendant, has solid evidence that he is innocent. But at the end of the trial, Tom Robinson is found guilty of a crime he did not commit, simply because of the fact that he is black. The blatant racial discrimination expressed by the jury is shocking, but unfortunately not at all unexpected. Every single trial that involved a white person against a black person in that time period was ruled in favor of the white person. It is obvious that even though the events of the novel are fictional, they are extremely realistic, and the quote by Barbara Jordan ties directly into the novel To Kill a

On lottery day, everybody politely and cheerfully converses with one another, making jokes and laughing. But when it’s time for everyone to open the slip of paper they drew from the old box, things definitely take a dark turn. The head of household that draws the one paper with a black dot on it must make the other members of their family draw a slip. The family member that draws the second dotted slip is stoned to death as a sacrifice to help ensure a good harvest, whether that person is a toddler or an elderly man or woman. One of the sickest parts of the whole ordeal happened after Tessie Hutchinson drew the paper that sealed her fate: one of the villagers handed Tessie’s young son Davy a stone to throw at his own mother. The people that had been casually speaking with Tessie just minutes beforehand are now taking her life, solely because they believe it will make the fall harvest plentiful. There isn’t discrimination in this text as much as there is conformity. The people of the village are ready and willing to stone someone to death because tradition has told them that it was a good thing, so they follow through with it, even though they’re committing murder. Everybody has their traditions that other may find weird, but brutally killing