A day to remember in the history of black people in America. 50 years ago Dr Martin Luther King Jr. opened the door of speculations about the future of black people in America. Dr King Jr. a son of preacher who himself became one and devoted his preaching to the liberation of the impoverish and discriminated black race in America during his time. Dr King pushed the American society and the whole world to a stand-steel, when he delivered his land mark speech '' I HAVE A DREAM''. The speech that shocked the whole of America.
The speech that equals that of the great Abraham Lincoln. He talked about the day when the doors of freedom will open to all regardless of skin colour. A day the bank of justice will never go bankrupt. A speech that is being talked about more today than 50 years ago when the speech was made to a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people.
The question today is; how far has this dream come true? To be honest, I would say Dr King's dream has come half way true and half way yet to come. What do I mean by this? Firstly, we would have to acknowledge the enormous progress the black league in America have made in being integrated into the American Dream. And apart from producing an American President which would have been a smoke scream 50 years ago, they have also seen progress in almost all spheres of America sector, from education, health, finance sports and virtually in anything you can think of today. But still, there is still a long way to go.
Recent incidents in America suggests the stage is not yet 'Uhuru'. Not too long ago, a little black teenager, Trevor Martin was murdered in cold blood because he was black. To compound the matter the Jury found his murderer not guilty of murdering that innocent boy, even after he had made a call to the police and was told not to follow Trevor Martin and the police even begged him to leave Trevor alone. Mr Zimmerman choose to kill the young man because he felt he was black and that every black man is a potential criminal and since he has the stand your ground law there to back him up, he could kill with impunity. He did, and truly got backed up by the law and the Jury.
The Trevor Martin Incident is just one out of numerous incidences of inhumanity to black people in and around America in the name of race and discrimination. Do you talk about the abuses in the street or police brutalities? If you Google YouTube right now, you would be surprised by the number of videos of police brutality and killings of black people in America regardless of gender.
The general excuse being given is that black people are violent and tend to be criminal minded. This is a society that has the worse rate of crime almost equally shared along the divide of race but tend to shade the white race from prosecution. The American society need to do more in readjusting their attitude to their black brothers which will be vital to cubing crime.
While America is running this very all important race of race, the remaining world most especially Britain need to do more to match what ever America is doing. Britain could focus her attention in stamping out racism and discrimination amongs the commonwealth countries, to do the least. By so doing, the tentacles of the war against racism would have been heard by the bongo bongo walls of the Italian parliament, where they still make racism jibes at the first black woman member of the Italian Executive Council with impunity.
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