How Did Martin Luther King Jr Have To Be Remembered?

Martin Luther King Jr. was and still is a very important person and leader that many look up to because of the difference he made in our nation. When people think of MLK, think of a well respected leader who changed our country for the better. He had a dream, a dream to end racism and have all people no matter what race or gender to become united. It was very saddening and sickening to hear that MLK was shot and murdered on the evening of April 4, 1968. Despite losing a leader, his legacy will forever go on and he will will be remembered. He was remembered all across the nation and was made into statues and monuments. However, many people find issues with some of the monuments made in his honor. The Martin Luther King Jr. memorial is one of
fought for rights of equality and did not stop until the day he passed. The statue being made out of white granite does not help his case and many people can argue on this topic. He fought for the rights of African Americans because of the inequality they faces in the past. The monument being made of white granite does not leave a good taste in people’s mouths because of what he fought for. He was mistreated and disrespected by those who did not agree with him because of his beliefs. During the civil rights movement, there was a huge separation between white people and colored people and anyone who tried to change that was looked upon. In an online article, Visiting The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, the author states, “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, becoming an icon through his incredible speeches and his use of nonviolent resistance.”(para. 2). He was a nonviolent person who made sure to be disruptive in any shape or
Even though he was African American and during the civil rights movement, that could result in being disrespected and mistreated, he did not give up and still spoke on what he believed in. After all he went through, the artist of the monument could have used a different type of material to represent who Martin Luther King, Jr. truly was. He was making a difference for the people of color because of all they went through and he deserves to be represented as what he spoke for. Bruyneel addresses, “The whitening of King, while likely not an intentional racial statement, conveys a type of post-racial ideology of color-blindness familiar to conservative discourse in the post–Civil Rights era, whereby whiteness, while no longer a formal category of legal superiority, remains the somatic norm for the privileged status that endows full and uncompromised citizenship in the American political community.”(92). People did not agree with the choice of color used for this monument and there is no wrong in that. Martin Luther King, Jr. went through many obstacles for his monument to be the color it