So we all know about the recent trouble in Libya. The people against the government, nothing we haven't heard of before. However, this situation is much like the Reconstruction era after the Civil War. People are fighting for their rights and they don't want to live in fear anymore. This is what the African Americans probably felt about their situation. In both cases even though violence awaited them in some form, they did not back down. The people had waited too long for something to change, and now they are making that change come from their own hands.
"Snipers from Libya's government forces fired on mourners attending a funeral for slain protesters Saturday, killing at least 15 people" (http://www.libya-watanona.com/). Under Gaddafi's rule the people of Libya have suffered many violations of constitutional rights. Their constitution guarantees that peaceful gatherings or protests will be allowed to assemble. Yet the government open-fires on those who are attending a funeral. That doesn't sound violent enough to warrant gunfire on the mourners.
The people of Libya, should they succeed in ousting Gaddafi from power will have to make revisions to the law and perhaps in other aspects like their constitution, etc. After the Civil War the United States certainly did.
But hopefully the ending will be different because even though blacks were granted equality under the law, they really weren't treated equally until the civil rights movement 100 years later. I hope they resolve this conflict and reunite as a whole nation soon.
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