Is it acceptable to exclude someone because they aren’t good enough?
But isn’t everyone the same?
Discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people. Prejudicial: harmful to someone.
Martin Luther King Jr. was on my side, he thought it was never acceptable to exclude anyone. The black people were discriminated because they were a different color, “a different type of person.” Was it true that they were different? No, it wasn’t, they are people just the same, the only difference was they weren’t treated like it. They were treated like the dirt on the bottom of someone's shoes. They had to drink from different water fountains, eat in different sections, and they had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted it.
Martin Luther King Jr, born on January 12 1929, was one of the world greatest leaders. He was a leader ever since he was elected class president for a predominately white senior class, in college. After He graduated from 2 different colleges he met his wife in Boston and they went on to have 2 sons and 2 daughters. In 1954, Martin became pastor of his Baptist Church in Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. strongly believed that God did not care what color you were, that every single person was equal under the eyes of the one who mattered the most, God. Martin Luther King Jr. was always a strong worker for civil rights, for the people of colored skin. Martin Luther King Jr. was a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of it's kind. Then in 1955 he was ready to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent prostest in the United States. The bus boycott lasted 382 days.
The Civil Right Movement was not about fighting, it was about showing the white people what was going on, and why it was wrong. The protests were not done with guns, but with posters and words. The most famous form of the protest was Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech. The speech moved people to side with the black people, to make them rethink the way they were treating the colored people. Martin Luther King Jr. continued to fight for the freedom of the black race. With the great conclusion to his speech, he once again reminded the white race that they were all the same under the eyes of God.
"And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."That was how Martin Luther King Jr. ended his nonviolent protest, with the words that speak the truth. No matter what color you are what race you are God will always love and cherish you.
Everyday I see the discrimination of people. At school people are discriminated because they are black, white, and Asian, I think it’s horrible. Everyday someone says something to make another feel bad, but they say “Oh it was just a joke.” Was it? Did they mean it as a joke? Well, that is undetermined but it seems an after thought to say it was a joke. It doesn’t mean that I am perfect, it doesn’t make any of us perfect, we have all discriminated, and have been discriminated. But what we don’t realize is we are all fabulous people with wonderful ideas, and if people can’t accept it, it is their loss. You need to just make new friends, who accept you for who you are. Just because you are not a high enough rank doesn’t mean you can’t do good in life. Just because you are different it doesn’t make you bad, It makes you unique, something everyone has to learn to accept. God loves you no matter what color you are, no matter what you look like, no matter what personality you have. God is the one person who will love yo no matter what.
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Rosa Parks: http://www.achievement.org/Paintings: http://sagecollective.blogspot.com/2011/01/tributes-fit-for-king.html
