A More Perfect Union Speech Analysis

In this day and age, people take their liberties for granted. Things such as owning property, voting, and even having our own basic freedom. We have had these rights for our whole lives, so we don’t really understand how big of a problem it was in the past and present. In the sources, “A More Perfect Union” by Barack Obama, Separate But Not Equal, and Civil Rights Movement, we can understand what black people had to go through and are still struggling with. Discrimination has been an ongoing obstacle that people had fought against and still are fighting against today.
In the first source, “A More Perfect Union” by Barack Obama, Barack explains how racism and discrimination are not just a problem in the past. He talks about the experiences he has had with them throughout his life and the more intense racism that African-American people had to face not too long
A quote from the short clip of the speech states, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King is stating that he hopes for the future of equality for everyone in the nation and that people are not facing racism simply because of their ethnicity and not their actions and character. Martin Luther King also describes his wish for the day where African-American people and white people are united together in harmony without any judgement. A quote from his speech states, “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” Martin Luther King is expressing his desire for all people, regardless of their ethnicity, for a nation that is united and is