Journal 2

The Holocaust Symposium was very inspiring because everyone got to speak with an actual survivor. It's incrediable because, first of all, their won't be many survivors left in a few years and it will be something special to share with my children and grandchildren when I'm older. The Holocaust occurred because Hitler wanted to create a perfect race; any group of people that didn't meet his standards were sent to concentration camps to be murdered. This clearly relates to the struggle for equality because the victims of the Holocaust didn't do anything to deserve their fate; they were merely targeted by racial and religious hatred. Someone's looks, religion, sexual orientation, handicap, etc. shouldn't set them apart from everyone else. Today, I hope that the world is more accepting of others even though they might be different. Everyone has their prejudices, but we must ultimately remember that we're all human beings. If everyone treated one another like a human and not a "Negro", "girl", "queer", etc. then the struggle for equality that everyone deals with evey day would eventually cease.