All Human Beings Deserve Respect - Latin America Revolutions

The social classes in 1800s Latin America were not equal, with the highest social class making up 1% of the total population.
I made this pie chart with my class in my Evernote account.

It is commonly known that every human should be treated with dignity, regardless of their race, but in the early 1800s, every race was treated differently.  It is important to think about the questions,  Why is it essential to acknowledge human value regardless of race? and, How are the events in the Latin American Revolutions evidence of this social imperative? because they can help anyone appreciate people for being of a different race than themselves.  If everyone knew and understood this information, then groups wouldn't have to revolt for their independence, like the people in Latin America did.  My history class found the answers to these questions by dividing into three groups, one for each of the revolutions of Gran Columbia, Mexico, and Brazil, and analyzing our group's revolution by creating a timeline of events.  Afterwards, we broke apart and shared our revolution timelines with the other groups.  Our exploration of the Revolutions of Gran Columbia, Mexico, and Brazil prove that all human beings deserve dignity and respect, regardless of their race.

This is the timeline of events for the Revolution of Gran Columbia, made by a group in my history class.

The timeline of the Revolution of Gran Columbia (above) shows how the independence of the Republic of Columbia from Spain provided freedom for its people, and shows that people of different races were able to be freed in Latin American countries.  The Revolutions of Mexico, Gran Columbia, and Brazil have commonalities and differences.  All of the revolutions were seeking independence from a mother country, and their mother countries were getting in the way of their independence.  Also, each of the revolutions were successful.  However, they all took place in different parts of Latin America, and involved different rulers fighting for independence.  Simon Bolivar was the leader from Gran Columbia, while Pedro was the Brazilian leader, and Miguel Hidalgo and Iturbide were the leaders of the Mexican Revolution.  even though independence was achieved in all three revolutions, race influenced the decisions in each of them.  In Brazil, Pedro surrounded himself with Portuguese born ministers because other elites weren't allowed to be part of the government.  During the Gran Columbian Revolution, Bolivar's way of thinking was different from other peoples' because was Venezuelan and came from a family of aristocrats, but was raise by slaves.  In Mexico, under the rule of Iturbide, Mexicans of mixed or pure Indian blood would less rights than the Spaniards or Portuguese.  Even after independence had been achieved in Latin America racial rights were still an issue, and sometimes remain an issue today.

Not as many racial problems exist today as they did in the 1800s, but sometimes people still aren't treated equally because of their race.  It isn't fair that some people are not treated kindly by their government and peers, and sometimes crimes are committed between people of different races.  Occasionally, the government will treat an African American person worse than they treat a caucasian, and this can be fixed.  This problem is still an issue, and everyone should consider the issue of race in their lives.   No one should pay attention to the color of the sin of their peers, because it might affect their opinion on that person.  Being treated in  bad way isn't fun for anyone, so everyone should try to stop racial injustice.  This issue has existed for hundreds of years, like during the Latin American Revolutions, and it is time to bring it to a stop.