Harvey Milk

This man knew he was going to make a deep impact in his community. I think that people like him deserve all the medals and glory, not the people who take things for granted and go through life easily. Milk gave something to people who were afraid to speak out about their beliefs and defend their way of life. In the film, I could tell that the people who were interviewed respected Harvey for his courage, enthusiasm, and most of all his firm stance on what was right and wrong. I really admire his enthusiasm and hopefulness for what he wanted to achieve. It's quite rare to find someone to selflessly fight all the obstacles that Harvey Milk did just to get to a place to bargain with his opponents.

Milk was right to fight for his rights to be openly homosexual and live the lifestyle that he did. America is supposed to be a place where people of every creed can exist in harmony with people of every other belief system. The racist Jim Crow laws and secret organizations should not have ever existed. It is a shame that most Americans think so conservatively about a lot of the main issues of today. Because this means that many groups of people with different views are denied what a lot of people take for granted-their freedom and basic human rights. It is not right to discriminate against someone that is different in any way from you. That is the way they chose to live, so it is not up to us to decide for others and impose our will of what the world should be like onto others.

The whole war in Iraq and Afghanistan, all those conflicts came from false propaganda intended to dupe the American people . It is the same idea to impose American values wherever a war is fought with American aid and then leave the country in a state of chaos afterwards. A lot of basic problems can be solved that seem complex if people just start to listen and stop fighting one another. This kind of strategy is what Harvey Milk brought to San Francisco. He was positive about what he wanted and didn't fight back with the ugly ways his opponents were using. Milk's strategy was about brotherly love and love for all the people around one's community. We need more people like Harvey Milk if we want things to start changing in a more positive, less violent and narrow minded way any time soon.

the candlelit march at night made Milk a 20th century martyr for those who needed a voice, for those who needed someone to guide the way into uncharted waters and stand up to face the unjust world. Milk is like the homosexual version of Martin Luther King, Jr. They both stood up for what they believed in-basic human rights- and went far in helping their respective causes. It was the same kind of person that created an obstacle for both King and Milk. the white conservative who discriminated and mistreated anybody he didn't understand or failed to want to understand. I don't understand what is so hard about not being open minded and accepting of other people. Is there a deficit for this kind of mutual understanding between people?