ASSIGNMENT #6 EQUAL RIGHTS

Nieves Micolta

Class: POL 166

Professor: Barry Murdaco

Lehman College

EQUAL RIGHTS

          Marshall argues the demand for social rights really begins with the idea of public education. If civil rights literally means only that the government cannot interfere with you, then on that basis alone there is no clear right to provide education for all the people. Same with political rights and the right to vote. It is of course a commonly accepted value that everyone is entitled to go to school, at least primary school, but this is only because we accept the idea of education as kind of social right that everyone needs. In today’s politics things like healthcare would be considered as social right. This however makes it clear, that not everyone agrees on the idea of social rights. When it comes to healthcare most other countries have accepted it as a social right,this is still something debated in the U.S. With the education there is a continuing effort to privatize education and de-fund and eventually shut down many public schools.

      My understanding about this passage is that, marshall was fighting for everyones social’s rights, and he tries to make understand how important is the education because everybody have the right to assist to school. Also, He argues about the right to vote as a citizen of the United State of America, as well the right to a healthcare assistances. Unfortunately, today many people still have not medical care because  of their economic reasons or even worse lack of medical insurance. 

          I chose this passage because sadly as mention in the paragraph above, now in schools or colleges the government is not giving us enough help like before. Being in college is too expensive and many parents do not earn enough money to pay a college and some students need to work to help with the colleges expenses. In the other hand, the healthcare is kind of complicate for some people, especially with the Obama care that not everybody qualifies for it and sometimes people got sick and have no money to cover an emergency room cost. People should not be suffering for none of these situations because as a citizen we all pay taxes to cover all of those cost from the government and they should be investing more in education and healthcare.