Well, Dakota didn't really go to Vegas, but it would have been cool if he did, right?
Now, back to the REAL topic.
On the field trip that the school had taken to Birmingham to visit the Civil Rights Institute as well as the 16th Street Baptist Church, and through watching the film, The Children's March, Dakota had learned the value of civil rights and equality within society, and its importance. He never quite understood what white people thought of blacks during the 60s, and now he knew that they thought of blacks as nothing other than livestock. He was disgusted by the sight of signs depicting blacks as animals, and photos showing blacks being hanged, beaten, and treated as slaves to a white society. His opinion of civil rights' issues remains the same as it did before, as the news today unravels new information regarding racism that people may say is brought by the other race, when in reality, it is brought by themselves. In modern times, 50 years after the peak of racism in America, a black person is elected president- proving that despite the possibility of facing racism or prejudice, your goals can always be accomplished, and change can always happen. However, even with the clear symbol that racism can't hold you back from everything in life, people continue to dwell on that idea and hold themselves back as they pull others down with them, all in an endless cycle of media and entertainment for the game of who-blames-who amongst the remnants of seemingly ironic racism in modern society.
