blog #9 SSR

Justice has been served more than a half-century after courageous students were sent to jail for taking a stand.
On Wednesday, Jan. 28, almost 54 years to the exact day the Friendship Nine were arrested, their convictions and sentences for trespassing and protesting were officially vacated during a formal hearing at Rock Hill Municipal Court in South Carolina.
Named the Friendship Nine because eight of the nine Black men were students at the former Friendship Junior College in Rock Hill, they were arrested Jan. 31, 1961, for sitting at the McCrory’s whites-only lunch counter.
After being found guilty, the men accepted a sentence of 30 days of hard labor on a chain gang, instead of paying the $100 bail.
(The rest of the news is found on the link below)
http://www.diversityinc.com/news/friendship-nine-convictions-vacated-50-years/


      After reading this I didn't know exactly how I should feeling. I felt that it was way over due, they should have resolved this way back than not now. I felt angry and disrespected because I thought of this as a joke. Like they did this only to prove that they can do whatever they please and to laugh at the whole situation that is according today. I also felt happy that at last victory  was serve for these innocent young people.
     These people that did this were around my age, they were willing to go though this to make a change. They didn't do it because their friends were doing it or because they were told to do so. They did it because it came from within them they knew that they had to try to make a change and went ahead and did what they could.
      I believe that it is the responsibility of this generation to stand up and make a change. I believe the only way that anything will change is if we want it with all of our hearts, that we fight for it as much as we fight to get up every morning even if our beds are pulling us in.    
      I believe that is on of the major problems in todays society, we are way to entertain with technology, we don't believe we can make a difference and because we are concern of what others think of us, so if our friends are not with it neither are we.