Monday, February 11, 2013

"Free Minds and Hearts at Work" by Jackie Robinson


    We can have a future together, oh yes!! A great future with no walls or ceiling that may stop us from archiving our goals in our lives. If people could only take a minute and “think” for a change the great benefits that we as a united whole can bring to society by changing our ways little by little. I, as I believe Jackie Robinson did as well, yearned for a better world. A world where people are color blind by the suffering of past warriors that left everything they had to get us all farther, even if just a little, but farther into a better future. The differences among us humans,  in our current society have changed through the years, but what it has been accomplished already should not be the ceiling, it should only be the beginning to something much greater. A future where  our children could be thankful of our legacy. And this is the idea that I share and like of this essay.

       
        As I was reading the essay I began to think about the struggles and prejudices that Sonny’s faced in "Sonny’s Blues" story. Sonny, like Jackie Robinson, had the same conviction of fighting for their dreams without a regard to the obstacles and prejudices that they faced in society, by keeping their deep rooted believes that there’s a better future as long as they fight for it. Although, Jackie Robinson unlike Sonny, believed in society and the good will of people within that society. He believed that society as a whole could change as long as there are people willing to make that change happen.  “I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe—and with every fiber in me—that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow," --- by Jackie Robinson. Even in a society with full of unjust prejudices, there is a chance to change and have a better today and tomorrow because we live in a free society that is bound to have people with free and fresh ideas that think differently than the rest. And can make a difference in today’s society and tomorrow’s.
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4 comments:

  1. LeeshiFebruary 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM

    Levis, I really enjoyed reading your post. Your...

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  2. UnknownFebruary 25, 2013 at 1:05 PM

    Levis, I like your post and your thoughts about changing future all by ourselves.
    Yes, you are right, we have to take a minute and think about this changes.
    We all want to, we all believe and we can make a difference. But it's not enough, we have to do something to change the world.

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    1. UnknownFebruary 26, 2013 at 10:15 AM

      Good thinking, writer.
      I believed that this society we lives in is of contact and not wholly of what one may know. There are are many people who learned and knows what it takes to be in the upper class, but they are still living in poverty. You may be preached to by some one and make you to believed that this life is free and you can do what you want, but is not true. If this world was made for each of us, then while others like us don't have equal share in life?

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  3. UnknownFebruary 26, 2013 at 3:17 PM

    Hi Levis,

    I really enjoy reading your post. I strongly agree with your ideas and believe that your picture well illustrates the "future's society" and changes that will be made.
    You are right when you said that:"Even in a society with full of unjust prejudices, there is a chance to change and have a better today and tomorrow".

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