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white men. These people do not seen to care how badly they emotional
hurt the slaves, as long as they are hard workers. Cinque was taken
from his home in African and put on board a slave ship heading to
America. His time on that ship was tortures. He was given little to no
food, packed right on top of one another. He watched as people were
randomly pick and thrown over board with rocks tied to their legs so
they would drowned. These white men did not care that they had to kill
these people because they do not view them as human or that have
value but as property that can make them rich. These white men are
selfish; all they care about are themselves. The only way to get
Americans stop being selfish is in order to get someone to like them.
Humans feel the need to be constantly liked by someone.
America feels like they need every other country to like them. In the
Amistad the President feels the need to try and make everyone happy
in order to get the reelected. He feels so much pressure that he sends
this case to the Supreme Court, making it look he does not have trust
in the smaller courts under the Supreme Court. John Quincy Adams
states I differ with the keen minds of the South, and with our
president who apparently shares their views (Paragraph 7). Previous
to John Quincy Adams speech, the President and a Senate from the
South had a conversation that the President would lose the votes from
the South in the upcoming reelection if he did not do something about
the case. Someone else that the President wanted make happy was the
Queen of Spain. This would not be a problem if the Queen were not an
eleven-year-old girl, who has little experience running a kingdom.
Making people happy has a price to pay and it is not a good one.
Americans contradicting what they say, being selfish and the
need to make sure that everyone likes them is something that is
revealed in John Quincy Adams speech and the truth about Americans.
Americans needed to change their ways because more and more
people were beginning to go against them what they were doing. Even
if it starts a civil war it will shape America in a new way because the
way it was then was no way to live. Everyone deserves his or her rights
no matter what.
Amistad. Dir. Steven Speilberg. Perfs. Steven Speilberg, Debbie Allen, and Colin Wilson. Motion Picture,
1997. DVD.