Question

N a paragraph of seven to ten sentences, answer the following questions in relation to this passage from John F. Kennedy's 1963 Civil Rights Address: What idea must be changed, according to Kennedy, in this passage? Why is it necessary for this change to occur? What long-term impact does Kennedy expect to make by changing this idea?

"One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other that this is the land of the free except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes?"

Answer 1

Question 1: The idea of racism must be changed.

Question 2: It is necessary for this change to occur so that a nation that has dreams, hopes, and preaches freedom can actually be free, and it won't be a free nation until all of the citizens are released.

Question 3: By changing this idea, Americans would start seeing each other as Americans and have what they claim to have. By not viewing a race of people differently than everyone else, then America would be true to what it says.