How American Equality Has Changed Throughout The Years

American Equality has really changed throughout the years. People used to be very rude to people of the opposite race or if they looked different. It is not as bad now as it used to be but you still see people getting made fun of. It is sad when people get bullied over something they did not get to choose. American Equality is how everyone is treated, everyone should be treated equally, but clearly not everyone is. American Equality is slowly getting better but it used to be very bad. In the book Huckleberry FInn there was really bad racism. People got judged for the littlest things. It really affected the people when they got made fun of. Some of the people who get made fun of are the nicest people, and they had no reason to get made fun of other than the fact they were different. It used to be so bad that the blacks and the whites had different schools, bathrooms, drinking fountains, seats on the bus, everything. They tried not to let it affect them but it would still affect me if I was the one getting made fun of constantly.
In Arnold Spirits life time things were a lot better than they were during Huck Finn. Some people still did racist things but things were not half as bad as they used to be. In Arnold’s time people shared things and did not get judged for everything. Arnold went from going to school on the Reservation to going to school in Reardan and he did not have hardly any problems. At first he was a little nervous he was going to get made fun of because he was an Indian, but he did not. The first week of school people acting a little different towards him but then he got in a fight and everyone started liking him. American Equality started getting better just in Arnold’s time of going to