Resumo de I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., a church pastor and an active fighter for human equality in the USA, points out in his speech I Have a Dream in 1963 that there is still racial discrimination and violation of civil rights of the African Americans in America nowadays. Further, King emphasizes that even though black slaves were freed more than one hundreds years ago, they are not free and do not have the same rights like whites in contemporary American society. Reading about American ?democracy? in King?s speech I would like to find an answer to one important question: Why do people still practice racial inequality in the United States?
In his essay Deadly Symbiosis: When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Mesh Loïc Wacquant gives a detailed description of history of the relation of whites and blacks in the USA, namely, from slavery up to modern American prison. The reader sees, that special institutions (for example, slavery, Jim-Crow?s system, Ghetto) have always existed in the USA?s social structure with the purpose of controlling life of the African Americans. The black people were and will be considered ?the second race? and this means, that they are dangerous, uneducated, unmoral, etc. This also means that the Afro-Americans do not have the same chances like the white American citizens. Another example of racial discrimination and segregation in American society is this fact that after the terrible hurricane ?Katrina? the rescue of whites in New Orleans was much more important to the authority than the rescue operations of the African Americans. Why does the color of skin play such an important role in ?democratic? American society? Maybe, because whites were the slave owners and blacks were their slaves. This ideology is present in the thoughts of the white people in the USA. Or could it be possible that whites are afraid of the fact that Afro-Americans would be better in any aspect of life and become serious competitors for them in political and public life?
King openly declared his dream of liberty for all the American citizens at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington forty-two years ago but, unfortunately, his dream has not come true. Certainly, the attitude towards African Americans has slowly been improving and there are numerous examples that blacks are also able to become successful in the USA: Condoleezza Rice, Halley Berry, the first black actress who won the Oscar, many rap, R&B and pop singers (R.Kelly, etc.). The majority of the black people in the USA, nevertheless, know what discrimination means: poverty, no possibility to find a good job because of lack of education, the whites? association of Afro-Americans with criminals.
I hope, anyway, that whenever it might be possible to say that indeed ?We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal? written in the Declaration of Independence and King?s dream, which was the most important thing to him, will come true.

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