The interest groups and Social Movements

This reading is mainly about organizations and their contributions to make changes and how their approaches are; they use to forms their organizations.

 “Olson argues that you can separate” diffuse interests” the will of majority, from “concentrated interests, “minority interests. Take for example how trade policy is made in the country: a certain sector of the economy, whether it is industry, agriculture, or services, might lobby the government for tariffs on certain products from foreign countries. This would result in high prices being placed on these items”.

America get their oil from other countries, the  government official does not feel the  burden because they don’t have to deal with the high gas prices so , increasing the prices on the items or gas doesn’t affect them as it will affect the people. We can look at the “free-rider scenarios, He also mentioned the “ free riders problem” refer to a situation where some individuals in a populations either consume more than their fair share of a common resource, or pay less than their fair share of the cost of a common resource”.  We can said that people on public assistant are free-riders cause the majorities do not contribute, they do   nothing all day and expect the Government to provide for them. 

Brown v. Board of Education

Linda brown  8 years old little black girl have to walk crossed  Topeka, Kansas to go to grade school daily, while white kids  only walk few blocks to get to school. The school system was segregated between blacks and white. The declaration of independence stated that “All men are created equal” but this doesn’t applied to the slaves.

There are other similar  cases before Linda brown, All five cases are different from each other the law suit was mainly to fight equal right for all human kinds. Cases such as McLaurin v. Oklahoma board of Regents of higher Education case, he was admitted to the University however, he had to sit away from the whites kid, even in classroom, Murray v. Maryland case another ,blacks were rejected  to attend the Law school, mainly because of their race. The list goes on.

 The cases were combined and called brown v. board of education the main “issue of these cases was the constitutionality of state-sponsored in public schools” is concerning the issue with the segregation in public Schools. The brown vs Board of education of Topeka, this case was basically about outlawed blacks from attending public schools For example New York city public School System is primary example of this type of  segregation still in full affect in our today societies. In New York City school system is set by Zone, meaning your child can not attend school in the white neighborhood if you don’t reside there as a resident of that Zone.

The Minority neighborhood doesn’t have the best education system, the schools are not well maintained, and the resources provided to the Minorities communities are limited to the student. We can said American equal right applied to all but in reality the law was created to benefit the creators not us the minorities.  Segregation maybe something that was obvious during slavery, however  I do believe that segregation is fully active in our generation, despite all the freedoms that one may think they have, there are so many lop hole that are prevent us the minorities to succeed in the America.

Yes, Granted we have black president but that doesn’t changes how minorities are being treated from all expect in America.

President Barack Obama  January 2009 Inaugural Speech

I decided to go with our current president Barack Obama, because if feel like, from the time of his elections. The American people are more comfortable and have strong faith in him that he will fullfill his promises and lead our country/ government back to what it supposes to be.

"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious, and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America—they will be met.’

President Barack Obama speech give the American people hope and serious reminder why is so important for Americans to change the failed politics and policies of the past, so American people can have their  government back . Seeing what took place in the real estate and the market falling, american were lost and need a leader that can bring their country back.