Analysis Of I Have A Dream Speech: Growing Up In Our Schools

It’s been fifty-two years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gave his, “ I Have a Dream Speech” Growing up in our schools, it is taught as if it was history that happened far in the past rather, than something that many of the population today was alive during this time. While, we as society likes to assume that we have gotten past racial inequalities, the disparities stare us right in the face, that we have yet to get anywhere within reach of Dr. King’s dreams. We all assume that since we have a black president and a black figure for freedom and peace we have suddenly gotten past the years of discrimination and cruelty.This account of a African American woman in the 1950’s shows very blatant signs of racism, which these events described really …show more content…
Which, today the division of quality education is also racially divided, just not controlled by the state. Looking back through my elementary yearbooks I’ve noticed that there was always one class out of the three that had more racial diversity, rather than just everyone being white. I went there for the whole six years and there was only one year where I wasn’t in the almost one-hundred percent white class. All of the kids were in ESL (English as a Second Language) even though English was the majority of everyone’s first language, and the level of education was noticeably lower than other classes in our grade level. This relates to the remarkable divides between races in housing areas between black people and white people. While there isn’t racial divides written paper but, it is still embedded into our society even just by location. When huge divides are still ever present in our society, it creates divides within the people as