Incivility has been an issue among Americans for many years. Many people are unfamiliar with different ways in which incivility is thought of. Some people have no choice but to act uncivilly to get their voice heard, and others act uncivil without knowing that they are doing it. Incivilities can resolve lifelong struggles, but it can also bring about relationship issues. Correcting incivilities may be easier for some than it is for others. Understanding how people view incivility helps one recognize the cause and effect of incivility in America. Civility can mean different things to different people. For some people civility can be as simple as not texting at the dinner table because it is rude. For others, civility can stop a whole group of voices from being heard on an important topic, such as slavery or prohibition. Either way incivility plays a huge role in American society at all levels. According to Sara Rimer, author of Play With Your Food, Just Don’t Text, she feels that it is uncivil to text at the dinner table. Many other esteemed individuals agree with her view of texting while dining with family. During a phone interview, Dr. Post Seening, author of Emily Post’s Table Manners for Kids, agrees with Rimer saying, “the family meal is a social event not a food ingestion event” (qtd in Rimer 460). According to Brian McGee, author of an essay about civility, Can Political Rhetoric BeToo Civil?, there is a time and place to be civil and other times where it is just to be uncivil. McGee writes about how “the New York Times noted in 1997 that there is an ‘epidemic of incivility’ in public meetings” (470), and they also noted “that the U.S. was the ‘rudest of nations,’ with a problem of ‘national incivility’” (470), in 1876. Although, McGee feels that, “politeness, as the politically powerful know, is boring” (471), and sometimes people need to be uncivil to get other people’s attention. McGee emphasizes that incivility is what helped things like “the successes of the movements to end slavery; secure civil rights for African Americans, women, and gay men; and reduce property taxes in California and other states, among many other causes” (471). There is a wide array of differences in opinion of what incivili