Martin Luther King I Have A Dream Analysis

In his famous speech „I have a dream” delivered on 28th August 1964 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King mentions a serious problem that affected and still is affecting lives of many Afro-Americans all around the United States. Black people in the whole country, but mostly in the south, were forbidden to vote even though they had a right to do that as citizens of the United States. He says „But one hundred years later (All right), the Negro still is not free. (My Lord, Yeah) One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. „ In other words this means that black people by 1964 should be able to do the same thing as white
He is trying to help people from a little city in Alabama called Selma. A black women who is trying to register for voting is denied her political right. King meets the president of the United States and tries to make a change but with no result. The whole film is about fighting for rights that are already given to black people. White men feel like they have more power than they actually posses and are trying to control other human beings. Instead of being free, some people are getting killed by policemen whose job is in fact to protect all citizens. No black life is safe but it does not keep them from going for what they deserve. They go on a march and a lot of people are hurt, some of them die and some of they survive. But that still does not keep them away from fighting. Thousand of people hear about their story and decide to help them. Amount of the people in the second march enormous. The movie ends with a short story about some of the black people who took part in the happenings and succeed later in politics. I truly admire every single person who fought for their freedom because I do not think I would have enough courage and determination to do such thing. I honestly cannot believe that there were and still are people who would make others to do something so risky and dangerous just so they could feel safe and do something so simple and normal like voting. As a
Black people are being threatened every day and are killed not only by civilians but also policemen. They are treated more strictly than white men and their punishments are way more serious. In a TV show called „The Fosters” there is a black, foster child called AJ. His foster father is Mike, a white policemen. One day Mike takes AJ on an action and tells him to stay in the car but instead AJ wants to help and goes after Mike. Policemen who came later to help Mike assume with no bigger reason that AJ is the one who caused trouble just because he is a black kid. And this may be just fiction but those kind of situations are happening everyday all around the USA. King gave Afro-Americans hope but they are still not treated the way they deserve