I have a dream

In his “I Have a Dream” speech, minister and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. outlines the long history of racial injustice in America and encourages his audience to hold their country liable to its founding promises of freedom, justice, and parity.

King begins his speech by reminding his audience of the 250,000+ attendees at the March on Washington in August of 1963 that it has been over a century since the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law, ending slavery in America. But even though Black Americans are technically free from slavery, they are not free in any larger sense—the “chains of discrimination” and the “manacles of segregation” continue to define the Black experience in America. It is time, King argues, for Black Americans to “cash [the] check” they were promised a century ago and demand “the riches of freedom and the security of justice.” There is no more time to waste in pursuit of an incremental solution to racism, King says it is the summer of the Negro’s valid displeasure,” and the country has reached its boiling Even though King calls for the “whirlwinds of revolt” to spin into action, he urges those on the front lines of the civil rights movement not to let “bitterness and hatred” define their actions. They cannot let their justice movement “degenerate into corporal violence.” King reminds his listeners to remain in the “majestic heights” of nonviolent opposition and also to not see their white allies as enemies. To bring true magistrate about, King says, Americans of all races will need to unite and remain true to the values of nonviolent solidarity.

King concedes the long and difficult efforts that many of his listeners have already faced—he knows that those involved in the action for civil rights have been beaten, insulted, and imprisoned. Still, he urges them to return home from the march to wherever they may live, be it in the sweltering South or the “ghettos of the northern cities,” optimistic in the value and promise of their fight. We live in a world where the color of our skin is all that matters the color of our skin is what define us Not what we are as human being a lot of people see the black culture as less than a human and less than an animal it’s like we come from a different world that doesn’t even exist there’s nothing wrong with being black we believe the same red blood was hurt the same way when we lose someone I feel the pain we feel betrayed we feel every pain that the white the culture feels that’s why I don’t get why every time a white racist person sees a black person they see the black person has an enemy as a criminal. I read in statista.com

We black people are sick of living in a world where skin color is more important than who we are. We are sick of being judged because of our skin color. We are sick of nobody trying to get to know who we are because of skin color we sick that every time we leave our house or in our house we got to be afraid that the police will come in without asking no question whatsoever and kill us we sick of everyday hearing that our kind is dying because of they skin color we sick of being afraid for our kids because they black. Being black doesn’t make me a murderer, being black doesn’t make me a criminal do you only thing that’s different between white and black is our skin color we black people are proud to be black being black is a privilege when back to our ancestors. Remember how they were slaves, how they were being up there working for the white culture, even sacrificing life to make sure they leave to make sure that the daughters they son didn’t get to be born a slave they have to work for the family because they were black or being raped by the person that owned them. But I’ll black and ancestors find to make sure that would never be a slave again Martha Luther king fight and sacrifice his life to make sure that the black culture will not be seen by the color of their skin but by the character of who we are and we want that dream to come true we want one day to wake up and have the same privileged white person have.