Quiz 3

1) Sarah Barnes is arguing that people have taken their freedom too far by constantly complaining about how equal rights do not exist between the different races, and social groups. She says, “All this country seems to be concerned about is making every person feel equal, but no one is treated that way.” She also argues about how quickly people get upset by saying, “People are so upset at any little comment or any little slip that any person with authority makes.”
2) Sick and Tired, discussed in Johnson chapter 8, talks about how people, talk about how they are sick and tired of listening to people constantly complain about how they are treated unfairly. Johnson talks about how people who do not feel someone else’s pain are tired of hearing those people complain about their pain. Johnson mentions, “Another reason for the ‘sick and tired’ complaint is that life is hard for everyone. Barnes’ statement, “Just don’t go around complaining that you got dealt a bad hand in life, when it is the individual that can make or break their own situations.” These statements connect to each other because Johnson is talking about how life is hard for everyone because of their situation. Whereas, Barnes is talking about how an individual can change their situation to make their life better, instead of complaining about how unfair and hard their life is. People cannot compare their lives to each other’s lives because each person suffers from a hard life, but mainly because they chose not to change their life.
Along with those quotes from both articles, Barnes sounds like she too is sick and tired of hearing people complain about the inequality of races. She complains about how some people who are not straight feel the need to announce it to everyone. She asks the question, “how necessary is it to single yourself out and have to announce each day that you are gay?” This makes it seem like she it tired of hearing people say that they are gay so that they will be treated the same as everyone else.