Martin Luther King's Speech On Segregation

Dear reader, I write you today to talk about an issue that seems to show its ugly face in all generations, whether it shows it's face through a letter like “Martin Luther King Jr.” Or by simply walking down the street. The subject that no generation can truly get rid, segregation. Segregation shows its face everywhere, whether we mean it or not. Imagine with me for a second that you are a twelve year old boy or girl and your younger sister or brother wants to play with you and your friends. Instead of letting him or her join you kick them out. Now this isn't the worst action of segregation, but it still is, even if the kicking out was an innocent act. A more serious segregation is like in the letter Martin Luther King Jr, “When you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society (Luther).” A true struggle that our history went through. …show more content…
“History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily (Luther).” If you're in the ‘right’ group you don't have to worry about being made fun of or segregated, that's how our repeated history shows even taking place now as you read this letter. We still put people down and treat them like they are inhuman if someone is a little different. Being know as bullying instead of segregation. Both with the intention to hurt another being that is living and breathing just like yourself. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere (Luther).” It goes for all aspects if a kid sees another kid bullying another kid then the other kid thinks it's okay to do that action. Until the young adult is shown how and why that is not an acceptable action. We all need to realize that we are all the same and to treat another how you