Dr. Cain Hope Felder's Lecture

This week, the lecture was given by Dr. Cain Hope Felder of the School of Divinity. His lecture was focused on freedom and justice and the fact that throughout history most conflicts were over a group of people fighting for the freedom denied to them. Dr. Felder also mentioned that we are "free to be responsible". Dr. Felder talked about the fact that as African Americans we were not apart of the plans for freedom and justice when the builders of the United States were putting together the constitution. He mentioned that when the constitution was written we were only considered 3/5 of a person, therefore we were not originally guaranteed justice. For example, Slaves never got justice of any kind or any form, and for a long time even after slavery was abolished African Americans still didn't get justice. Even now after the major strides the civil rights movement made, our people are still the largest part of the population in the prison system. After hearing the lecture given by Dr. Felder, I realize that freedom is supposed to be a right but is instead a privilege in today's society.