Donovan Greenfield
English 102
April 21, 2016
Topic 5
King assumed the basic oneness of humanity as a means of overcoming racism. How have you advanced this notion in your life? Kings assumption on an individual?s oneness for humanity to me covers a lot of questions in many people?s minds. Such as nonviolence, it is because Martin Luther King new that a person could have trouble not moving past something without forgiveness or holding grudges for example would be a big part of today?s society. Individuals that did not forgive would not forget and that would cause an unbalancing between the two groups whether it be afro American and Caucasian or black and Hispanic and so forth. It was important to reinforce peacemaking to let everyone to …show more content…
My father?s side of the family was not very understanding due to the fact of my mother being dark skinned and catholic. Whenever we had family dinners they made our family eat in another part of the house until my parents had enough and we stopped seeing that side of the family indefinitely. It?s sad to say even though the civil rights movement has already passed clearly in to the 70s people still were ignorant to the fact of individuals falling for other mates from different cultures. Racism was not very big in my …show more content…
And beautiful families with interracial children are everywhere these days and they make beautiful children. For example Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey are two examples of amazing interracial people. Although in the 90s going to junior high school was hard sometimes all because of the Rodney King riots in L.A. that was 55 miles from my home and the big racial divide over the O.J. Simpson trial was another issue along with police brutality on African Americans was very big in the 90s. Everyone still reverted back to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King and his famous speech ??I Have a Dream? speech, a spirited call for peace and equality that many consider a masterpiece of rhetoric. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial?a monument to the president who a century earlier had brought down the institution of slavery in the United States?he shared his vision of a future in which ?this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ?We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
English 102
April 21, 2016
Topic 5
King assumed the basic oneness of humanity as a means of overcoming racism. How have you advanced this notion in your life? Kings assumption on an individual?s oneness for humanity to me covers a lot of questions in many people?s minds. Such as nonviolence, it is because Martin Luther King new that a person could have trouble not moving past something without forgiveness or holding grudges for example would be a big part of today?s society. Individuals that did not forgive would not forget and that would cause an unbalancing between the two groups whether it be afro American and Caucasian or black and Hispanic and so forth. It was important to reinforce peacemaking to let everyone to …show more content…
My father?s side of the family was not very understanding due to the fact of my mother being dark skinned and catholic. Whenever we had family dinners they made our family eat in another part of the house until my parents had enough and we stopped seeing that side of the family indefinitely. It?s sad to say even though the civil rights movement has already passed clearly in to the 70s people still were ignorant to the fact of individuals falling for other mates from different cultures. Racism was not very big in my …show more content…
And beautiful families with interracial children are everywhere these days and they make beautiful children. For example Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey are two examples of amazing interracial people. Although in the 90s going to junior high school was hard sometimes all because of the Rodney King riots in L.A. that was 55 miles from my home and the big racial divide over the O.J. Simpson trial was another issue along with police brutality on African Americans was very big in the 90s. Everyone still reverted back to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King and his famous speech ??I Have a Dream? speech, a spirited call for peace and equality that many consider a masterpiece of rhetoric. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial?a monument to the president who a century earlier had brought down the institution of slavery in the United States?he shared his vision of a future in which ?this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ?We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created