The Springs Chronicles

In Kentucky, Attorney General Daniel Cameron is doing everything in his power to keep private religious schools open. He is suing the governor, Andy Beshear, for violating students' First Amendment rights by not allowing them the freedom to worship.  Attorney General Daniel Cameron Cameron stated, "...when you tell folks who send students to religious-affiliated schools, which is an act of worship itself, that they cannot go to school, it infringes upon the First Amendment rights." Beshear stated that "they are treating everyone the same." He believes that since public schools are closing, private schools must also close, regardless of religious affiliations. I do not see how this violates students' First Amendment rights. Schools can be a place of worship, but the reason for students not be allowed to go to school is because it is for the safety of the public. There is no malicious intent. However, I do not believe the Governor should decide if all schools...

Many anti-maskers have fought for their right to choose to not wear a mask, even though it is required by law, because they believe it violates their first amendment rights.  Courts have been fighting these cases since masks have become mandatory. A court in Florida ruled that masks mandates are "constitutional" because " the requirement to wear such a covering has a clear rational basis based on the protection of public health ".  I believe that mask mandates are necessary in these times because the masks do not protect yourself from others, but rather they protect others from you. This is why mask mandates are crucial. If the masks were protecting you from others, then I would not care about a mask mandate. My rule of thumb is "if people want to be stupid, let them be stupid". However, because of how the masks work, this rule cannot be applied. Anti-maskers protesting a mask mandate Extremists point to the mask as a first step toward " government co...

Just when we thought 2020 could not get any worse, the 2020 election came upon us. With accusations of voter fraud and rigging, this could not have been a better way to cap off the year. Joe Biden has won the presidential nominee, and will likely be the president of the United States. That is, unless Donald J. Trump can prove that there was foul play involved. Voter Fraud Allegations The picture above has been commonly used to show that Biden rigged the election in Michigan. Biden receives an almost random spike in his number of votes at around 6 am. Trump has pointed to this and incited that there must be foul play at hand. But is there? No one knows for certain. Some defending Biden's win say it's because of the mail in votes. The votes supposedly were counted and then entered all at once, instead of one at a time. Another claim is that Trump would not receive any spikes like this because he told his voters to not vote by mail because it was fraudulent. Trump is still fightin...

Hello all. I do not know why we are here arguing this case today. Plessy v. Ferguson already determined that “Separate, but equal” is in fact, constitutional and equal for both races. Does the court still not believe in stare decisis? Did that change in secret? Segregation has kept our society stable. The races of black and white must be kept separate in order to maintain balance in society.  The races are like different forms of government . Socialists and communists cannot exist in a democratic republic without causing chaos. We have seen this with the first red scare , where communists sent our government into chaos about who was and was not a communist. And to this day, we are still seeing the effects of communists in a democratic republic society. Desegregating society will send American society into turmoil. Keeping the races separate while providing the same level of amenities is still equal, correct? To overturn a court case as powerful as Plessy v. Ferguson, there needs to...

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was an event that I had personally never really learned a lot about before this class and video. This video showed how much work went into pulling off this march, and how the word was spread about The March. The first thing I learned is that there was another Martin Luther King Jr., however this person fought to keep segregation alive. Bull Connor was an extremely racist individual, who happened to be the police chief of Birmingham, Alabama, or "Bombingham" as it was nicknamed.  An image of Bull Connor I say that Bull Connor was the MLK of segregation because he gave speeches, was very outspoken, and adamant about keeping segregation. He was the spearhead for the continual practice of segregation.  Almost comically, Bull Connor jailed MLK in April of 1963. Bull Connor had a reputation for having his jails be the worst possible thing for blacks. The condition of the cells, his mental torture, and everything about the environment mad...

The PBS documentary, RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR , was a very interesting documentary that looked at the Civil Rights era and shed light on very under taught subjects. I find it very intriguing that Lincoln picked his running mate to be a person that was an outright racist. Andrew Johnson was a racist Southerner. I wonder who Lincoln's other running mates could have been. Picking Johnson seems very odd considering what Lincoln ended up doing. When Johnson takes over, he proves this by "keeping the black population under control". Johnson also required the Southerners to take an oath to the Union, which I find odd because in a democratic society, no oath should ever be forced to take an oath.  Johnson seemed like he had a superiority complex, because he was forcing people to beg to him for amnesty. It's also odd that he completely forgave the Southerners, and in most cases gave their land and power back to them, and no one stopped him.  I am surprised t...

Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson was pointless to write because he was the only person to disagree with the decision, unless he had a significant message to get out in to the world. Harlan's message was that although white's are dominant to blacks in regards to education, wealth, and achievement, the law does not take those things in to consideration. The law is color blind, and therefore, should be equally applicable to all people regardless of race. Harlan also states that in not doing so, aggression towards both races will increase and therefore cause conflicts.  Harlan was intimidatingly accurate. Harlan wanted to shed light on the issue that whites believe they are above blacks, but when the law of the country was written, it did not make mention of race. Therefore, when there are laws that are created in order to undermine non-whites, why were these laws being followed and upheld? His belief was that the law should be color blind, as it is written, because if a ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has said to have been the most influential statutory change regarding voting since the Reconstruction Era . This act cleaned up the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by completely obliterating and removing all Jim Crow Era practices regarding voting. This included outlawing literacy tests, providing Federal examiners in places where Jim Crow practices were prominent, and prevented states from changing their voting practices without consent from Federal government officials. The examiners were assigned to voting districts where less than 50 percent of the non-white minority community were registered to vote . Although this act did ban literacy tests, it is important to note that poll taxes were not abolished in state elections until 1966.  President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in to law Although the act was not properly enforced until a few years later, it was successful in increasing the black voting turn out. In Mississippi, the percentage of t...