I Have A Dream
Where should we start, at the beginning when we sold people as property, punished them for talking to the wrong people, or killed them for walking on the other side of the street? I know, it’s unbelievable. It’s even crazier to think this happened only 148 years ago.
Whenever I hear the name Martin Luther King Jr. I think of his speech, I Have a Dream. Throughout it, he expresses his many hopes and dreams for the world. I believe that some of them have become a reality, but others, unfortunately, have not. One of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. speech is, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” …show more content…
How did a society that has come so far, begin at a point in time when we considered people as property? Why has it been 219 years before people realized that it is okay to elect a president of color? This ties along with the discussion of gender equality because there still hasn’t been a female president. Some women have come very close, but have yet to succeed. There shouldn’t be a debate on who is what gender, it doesn’t matter. Another question is how did people live day after day after day, knowing what people of color had to face? How did people think it was even remotely right, to lynch someone for no reason? There are some outrageous stories of lynchings in history. People were killed because they were homeless, for being unpopular in the community, and people were even killed for skipping a stone across a lake. The accounts of some people’s life truly blow my mind. Why do people still judge someone by the color of their skin when it matters on the inside, and not the outside? Martin Luther King Jr. supported this by saying, “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.” Has this dream become a reality? In my opinion, this dream has. The people who experienced horrible treatment currently live among us, and are considered ordinary people. Everyone has first impressions, but we are
Whenever I hear the name Martin Luther King Jr. I think of his speech, I Have a Dream. Throughout it, he expresses his many hopes and dreams for the world. I believe that some of them have become a reality, but others, unfortunately, have not. One of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. speech is, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” …show more content…
How did a society that has come so far, begin at a point in time when we considered people as property? Why has it been 219 years before people realized that it is okay to elect a president of color? This ties along with the discussion of gender equality because there still hasn’t been a female president. Some women have come very close, but have yet to succeed. There shouldn’t be a debate on who is what gender, it doesn’t matter. Another question is how did people live day after day after day, knowing what people of color had to face? How did people think it was even remotely right, to lynch someone for no reason? There are some outrageous stories of lynchings in history. People were killed because they were homeless, for being unpopular in the community, and people were even killed for skipping a stone across a lake. The accounts of some people’s life truly blow my mind. Why do people still judge someone by the color of their skin when it matters on the inside, and not the outside? Martin Luther King Jr. supported this by saying, “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.” Has this dream become a reality? In my opinion, this dream has. The people who experienced horrible treatment currently live among us, and are considered ordinary people. Everyone has first impressions, but we are