NFL national anthem protest

Essay type is a claim of value! This is the background: Even when people agree about a standard for measuring behavior, a majority preference is not enough to confer moral value. Jim Crow laws are a primary example; many white southerners in the 1950s believed that literacy should be a requirement for African Americans to vote. Despite the majority of the population agreeing with this voting standard, the law was immoral since its discriminatory policy prevented African Americans from having a voice in the government. In formulating value claims, you should explore the way in which that value claims. Why would white southerners in the 1950s highly value literacy only in the African American population when it came to voting? Lionel Ruby, an American philosopher, sums it up in these words: "The law of rationality tells us that we ought to justify our beliefs by evidence and reasons, instead of asserting them dogmatically." Informally research acts of protest and/or acts of civil disobedience that have occurred within the past 5 years. You may want to consider: NFL national anthem Confederate monument marches White House Press Secretary Huckabee-Sanders being asked to leave a restaurant Confronting Senator Jeff Flake in the elevator before the Vaughan hearings Black Lives Matter shutting down of freeways The writing prompt is Express a judgment about an act of protest being right, wrong, worthwhile, or undesirable.          

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