Happy MLK Day to those in US
By dorannmwin
@dorannmwin (36392)
United States
January 18, 2010 12:00am CST
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the father of the American Civil Rights movement back in the 1960's. Even though he didn't live to see his dream come true, I think that our country has come a long way since then.
I know that I'm not old enough to have seen the changes that have taken place in our country, but I think that it wonderful to see that for the most part people are starting to all be seen as people and not as a superior race versus an inferior race.
To make this a discussion, what have you seen happen during your lifetime that you think illustrates the dream that MLK had for people? Do you remember the civil rights movement? What did you think of it then and what do you think about the progress that our country has made? And so not to leave anyone out, if you aren't from the United States, do you experience racial inequality in your country? What do you think should be done about it?
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@jewels49 (1776)
• United States
18 Jan 10
When I started school they were still segregated,so I saw the end of that, I was only about 6 years old. but I remember my mom being yelled at by the neighbor for leaving me in the class when the first black students came to our school, alot of our neighbors moved their kids into different classrooms to avoid the desegragation.
I also remember the principal coming to our house because he had seen me playing in the yard of one of the first black families in our neighbrhood..I had never seen my mom mad really, until that day, she all but threw him off our porch and I still played at the neighbors.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
18 Jan 10
Good for your Mom. She must have been so brave during that period of American history@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
19 Jan 10
My mother was in school when segregation was ended as well. She became friends with a little girl in her class and her mother almost beat her when she found out that my mother was sitting with the little girl waiting to be picked up and holding hands with the other girl. Until the day that my grandmother passed away, she never accepted people of different ethnic backgrounds as being equal to her and I really hated that.
@ziyadahinc212 (552)
• United States
18 Jan 10
T/Y and same to U Ms. Lady!lol We still have a ways to go I'm afraid but, with Almighty GOD at the helm we'll make it.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
19 Jan 10
I do believe that it will eventually happen as well. It would be great if it was able to happen over night, but that just isn't the way that the human nature works.
@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
19 Jan 10
Thank you, and Happy Martin Luther King Jr day to you, Dorann.
I was raised in the 50s and 60s when the civil rights movement began. Some things have changed, such as school integration and no more separate everything for blacks and whites.
But more changes do need to be made. I think inequality will always exist in some form, which is shameful, not just for blacks, but for other genders, races, classes, and religions who are still affected by it.
To be sure, though, progress HAS been made.
karen
@randylovesdar (4932)
• United States
18 Jan 10
I was not born around the time of Martin Luther King Jr., but I do remember reading a lot about him in school. I guess the one thing I have seen is that enrollment of higher education has gone up in all races and ethinic backgrounds. I honestly feel that if Dr. King had not paved the way for the Blacks to become free that we would not have our first Black president. I also feel that we would not have had Colin Powell in political office. I think if it were not for him we would still have segregation in the states. I think we would probably still have slavery in our country.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
19 Jan 10
I do also believe that the civil rights movement did ultimately pave the way to have African Americans in government office. I do believe without Dr. King and all of his supporters that there might still be segregation in the United States. However, I don't think that slavery would have ever happened again as that was ended with the Civil War in the 1800s.
@fsll518 (304)
• China
18 Jan 10
I am a man from China. There are 56 ethnics in China, and I think they are all equal. There are some favorable policy for those minor ethnics as well. There are some seperatists who want to independent from the country, but that's not really about equality.
My ex GF is mixed race girl from USA, and she once in a while asked me if I mind her race. There were some misunderstanding because of race issue. Now we have finished relationship, not because of race, but because too difficult for her to maintain a long-distance relationship.
Long life equality, long life harmony!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
19 Jan 10
I wish that there was a way that all people here in the United States would view all people as being equal, but I think that hasn't happened yet because the American Civil Rights movement was really only just a few years ago in the grand scheme of things.
