Diversity In Civil Rights Movement

Pope Francis once said ,“Even today we raise our hands against our brother… we have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal that we continue to sow destruction,pain,death” to demonstrate the ways humanity has failed its people. Violence against other humans due to racial, sexual, or gender divides has been commonplace in the history of America. Such conflicts caused the emergence of Civil Rights Movements aimed to end segregation of the race, sexuality and gender. Every civil rights movement experiences oppression or adversity derived from the leader of the society they are protesting. Lyndon B Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and other presidents of the United States were primarily hostile towards Civil Rights proposals and as a result they created a society, or country that served those like the president, and did not allow room for diversity. Most prominently as an opposer of Civil Rights was Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan was so hostile towards racial equality that one of his standpoints for campaigning was appealing to white backlash, which was white workers who were resentful towards POC gaining equality in the workplace and
society. ( The Ronald Revolution Crash Course 2:08) Ronald Reagan ignored minorities such as the LGBT community, women as a whole and the POC community. His alignment with the Catholic Church enabled him to take action against segregation and further rights that had been withheld from minorities. Following Democratic president Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan promised to bring conservative viewpoints to the government, which was a welcome change as many viewed Carter’s political party alignment as the scapegoat for the issues of America. Reagan promised to improve the economy through economic conservatism, and he sought to end communism to further improve foreign affairs. He promised to bring change even though hate and discrimination pervaded the society he reigned over. Although the vast majority agrees that Ronald Reagan was a great man who brought great change to America and the economy, one could argue that he was an apathetic president and hostile towards Civil Rights Movements.