The Role Race Plays in Revolutions

Race plays a huge role in the world we live in. But some fail to acknowledge human value because of race. For example, the case in Ferguson, Missouri. Race played a major part and still will. In the Latin American revolutions, race also played a huge role. The people who led the revolutions were from different racial groups. In class we recently learned about the Latin American revolutions. We then broke up into groups and learned more about the revolutions

Our group's timeline on the revolution in Gran Columbia

Between all the revolutions, there were some commonalities as well as differences. All three revolutions we learned about were all fighting to gain independence and they were all against European countries. However, not all revolutions resulted in a constitution formed, and 2 had the same racial group leading, while one had a different one. The higher up people were in terms of race back then, the bigger impact they had. All of the leaders came from the two highest groups in terms of ranking at the time.

Now, race is still an important factor in day to day life. For example, the Ferguson case that just got closed. A black teenager was killed by a white cop. People are still ignorant of the fact that race doesn't matter. We all were created or evolved (or whatever the theory that you believe for how humans were created) from the same thing. What it comes down to in the end is what kind of person they are. That is what matters, not race or color.