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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Martin Luther King Activity

Answer to both questions.


 First of all, the year in which the speech was given, was part of a really dark time in which Jim Crow Laws were still working, being North  America, specially the South,a very discriminative place were segregation and discrimination could be observed and felt specially if  you were  Afro-American.
If you compare this to the United States of America of today, through MLKJ´s eyes,it would be considered a paradise for black people, not only because it´s very unusual to be discriminated because of your skin colour but  because that doesn´t matter anymore.
A very important thing that broke all this age of discrimination was when Barack Obama was elected as  president of The United States of America, were everyone can notice that he had the same chances as all the other candidates and he wasn´t discriminated because of the colour of his skin, in fact he was elected, demonstrating  the whole world that black people can do whatever they want in life, you can even be the most important person in the world, encouraging black people to stop thinking that they are seen with other eyes.
About the feeling of brotherhhood/Sisterhood, specially in USA you can see that no one is going a make a difference with you because of your skin colour, you can see best friends from different cultures, religions, ethnic groups and of course skin colour because at least in this very diverse country not even one of this things is an obstacle at the moment of making friends, looking for a work or even choosing the person you want to marry with.

Bibliography:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws