Essay On The Movie Selma

When Selma first starts with the scene of Martin Luther King accepting the noble prize, it shocked me that even when he was accepting an award the only African Americans in there were king and his wife. With that being paired with the group of kids descending the church having a causal conversation, that sounded so organic much as a conversation would with my friends. While I was just starting to take It all in I was caught off guard by the explosion killing the group of kids. The church bombing is something I’ve always known about but, when watching this movie seeing it in color and so early on it really allowed me to grasp the real danger of segregation and the extremes people were willing to go to.
Selma, didn’t slow down on the discrimination …show more content…
When the actual protest in Selma in takes place the protestors remain calm, while the law and members of the KKK beat them up. It made me upset that these people claimed they were doing this because they were American and blacks were lesser because they are not white. When it comes down to it, America is known as a melting pot because it is a mix of all races and ethnicity. However, in the time of Selma all that seemed to matter was what color your skin was not whether or not you born legally in the US and by the constitution a citizen.
When the movie ends with MLK’s speech It left me wondering when will we be free? Not just black people from discrimination but, everyone in the society that we live in we can see false constructs of race even though we know skin color is due to genetics and evolution depending on how close to the equator one lives. MLK’s question made me think when we as a nation give up these false pre-notations of a race or that theirs a master race and accept that we all came from the same place at one point in time; his is what I feel king meant when he asks when will be