Blog #5 Revised

Blog #5

A present day issue that I will be relating to Chaplin’s speech “The Great Dictator” is equality.  In Chaplin’s speech, he talks about having equality among different races and religion.  Although race and religion are still issues today, society’s tolerance has grown greatly.  Just because there is better equality for race and religion, other groups still struggle for it.  An equality issue in today’s society is gay rights.  Society is finally starting to accept the gay community.  The topic on whether gay marriage should be legal is a big concern.  In order to make everyone have equal rights, gay marriage should be allowed.  If it is not allowed, then the equality is taken away from gay people.  Right now thirty seven out of the fifty states have legalized gay marriage.  Clearly, there were equality problems back in Chaplin’s time and there are still equality issues today.  An example of the struggle for equality is displayed in the novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird.  In the story, a man named Atticus Finch has been asked to defend Tom Robinson, an innocent  black man accused of raping a white woman.  Even though many people in Atticus's town look down on him for defending the man, he does it anyways.  He does this because he believes that everyone should have an equal chance during trial no matter what the color of their skin is.