{"id":1770,"date":"2019-11-18T19:57:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T00:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T00:57:51","slug":"the-draft-and-kent-state-shootings-a-problematic-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/11\/18\/the-draft-and-kent-state-shootings-a-problematic-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Draft and Kent State Shootings: A Problematic War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Civil Rights movement and the Anti-War movement were more related than I initially realized.\u00a0 Who was sent over to fight for the United States was problematic. This is because the draft was inherently racist, in addition to discriminating against poorer Americans.\u00a0 At one point in the video a narrator said that, \u201cIf you\u2019re white, middle-class, and a dean\u2019s list kind of guy, then relax\u201d. The narrator was essentially saying that a college educated white man would not be drafted, which brings up the unequal aspects of the draft itself.\u00a0 There was strong opposition to the Vietnam war, but the United States established laws that were aimed to prevent drafted men from refusing to go overseas to fight. If a person would refuse to go and fight in the war, then they could be convicted of draft resistant. Muhammad Ali, who was a strong opponent of the draft and the war, refused to fight and as a result lost his heavyweight belt.\u00a0 The draft resistant laws forced many people, who were \u2018randomly selected\u2019, to go fight in a war that they did not believe in or support.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The video about the Anti-War movement is especially interesting to me because I live about thirty minutes away from where the Kent State shooting occurred.\u00a0 I have learned about the incident over and over again as a student in Ohio, but its impact in the Anti-war movement is still surprising to me to this day. The video mentioned how the Kent State shooting acted as a catalyst of sorts for people, who otherwise would have stayed silent, to speak up against the war This is impactful for me because I always think of Kent State as just a random college in my backyard, but for an incident to occur there and change the course of American history is mindblowing for an Ohioan like me. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Rights movement and the Anti-War movement were more related than I initially realized.\u00a0 Who was sent over to fight for the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/11\/18\/the-draft-and-kent-state-shootings-a-problematic-war\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Draft and Kent State Shootings: A Problematic War<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}