JOURNAL ENTRY
By Booker
In the Center for Civil and Human Rights, there was a simulator of the student Sit-Ins. At the start of it, when I had just put the headphones on, I hear shuffling. I thought that were was a big group of students that was coming along and sitting by me, but it was the simulation itself. That is how good a job they did on it. My belief that the sound was just some other students walking by me stopped when a person called me “BOY” loudly.
Throughout the simulation, I started to cry, because it seemed so real. But I still knew that it was not real, and that I would get out of it without anything happening to me. Nothing in the simulator compares to the horror that the protestors had to go through. The chair rattled to make it seem like the someone was touching me. In real life, they would have been hitting and punching me. In the back of my mind, I was thinking that it would all be over and I would get out uninjured. But as I write this, I wish that I had not thought that. I wondered what the protesters would have thought of me at this moment. In other words, be in the moment.
There were videos of Bloody Sunday when they were walking over the bridge and getting attacked. The thing that was cool about that was it was in a set of the police man's office. At the bottom of the museum was some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s old work during the time of the Civil Rights movement. I really liked how they ended the museum with what is going on today. The rest of the museum was very inspiring because it did not just show things about the Civil Rights movement, there was a big exhibit that shows what is happening now. This makes you think about what is going on today and makes you want to stand up for other people today.
Throughout the simulation, I started to cry, because it seemed so real. But I still knew that it was not real, and that I would get out of it without anything happening to me. Nothing in the simulator compares to the horror that the protestors had to go through. The chair rattled to make it seem like the someone was touching me. In real life, they would have been hitting and punching me. In the back of my mind, I was thinking that it would all be over and I would get out uninjured. But as I write this, I wish that I had not thought that. I wondered what the protesters would have thought of me at this moment. In other words, be in the moment.
There were videos of Bloody Sunday when they were walking over the bridge and getting attacked. The thing that was cool about that was it was in a set of the police man's office. At the bottom of the museum was some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s old work during the time of the Civil Rights movement. I really liked how they ended the museum with what is going on today. The rest of the museum was very inspiring because it did not just show things about the Civil Rights movement, there was a big exhibit that shows what is happening now. This makes you think about what is going on today and makes you want to stand up for other people today.