Response Of Martin Luther King's Final Speech: I Ve Been To The Mountaintop

In in his final speech before his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King quotes, “Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” Throughout Dr. King’s speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”, he points out the beauty in the stars of this dark time in history. Much like the stars, Martin Luther King Jr. was a light to all citizens affected by racism and became the eternal leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
I have always struggled with the purpose of racism. Who decided that dark skinned people are not equal to whites, and how they got the power to make that decision are riddles that I cannot seem to solve. “The greatness of America is the right to protest for right” King speaks. I agree with that claim about the greatness of America, Land of the Free. In our society today,
Women, LGBTQ, and even Nazi supporters have been able to peacefully rally. However, there are still fights against police brutally and black discrimination. There is nothing illegal about the color of my skin, or of the skin of a 17-year-old girl from Kenya. There is something illegal about hindering a persons’ access to their born rights. Furthermore, there is certainly no reason why someone with Kenyan skin should receive any less respect than someone like me. Whether or not white people during this time believed in black rights, they still owed them the respect as being contributing members of the American society. American in 2017 is missing someone like Dr. King. We are missing a public figure that has the wisdom and bravery to fight against all odds for a purpose greater than himself. We