“I have a dream”

I have a dream by Martin Luther King –does it really came true or it became just a dream

Martin Luther king made this epoch making speech on Aug 1963 in Washington Abraham Lincoln Memorial

The magnitude of this speech can be best understood only if we can understand the ground realities of America as a country in their attitude towards the black citizens of their country .Although it is officially proclaimed that America has granted Physical freedom from the shackles of slavery by 1864; Unfortunately the shackles became worse only after 1864. In fact the dominant white community in the southern states and their counterparts to a smaller extent in the northern states started spewing venom only after that historic declaration. As King mention in his speech even after 100 years Blacks still don’t have their freedom .100 years have gone by still Blacks are shackled by the chains of    Untouchability and Race Bias.

By 1870s separate extremist organization like Ku Klux Klan were formed to hunt down the Blacks and purify the White race which is nothing but American form of Nazism .But King had a dream that one day Both Black children and White children studying the same schools, Both Black children and White children travel in the same bus,  A man is respected not by the color of his skin but by the deeds he does. He visualized justice, freedom rights also belong to a society that has far too long suppressed in the shackles of slavery. I strongly believe that if at all there was no man called King even God could not have been able to save the Black people from their never ending Abyss of injustice, cruelty and misery. As he says in his speech ‘I have a dream that one day, this country will rise up and say  all men are born same as it is said in the declaration of United States Of America. And not only did say I have a Dream he vigorously fought for it not through violence but through a non-violent struggle that took his life in the end. And he championed the cause of the civil rights movement in the 1960s fighting not just for equality but for the very identity of a community that has been hidden far too long under the veils of oppression cruelty and injustice. And did he won ,Yes he did but his victory came as a price for his death. As he says in a speech made two months before his death “ I don’t have money to leave , but I like to leave a life that is based upon principles”

And his life does teach us some wonderful lessons. It is not always easy to undertake a movement based upon principles of non-violence alone but he did that’s what made thousands of people storm the cities during his funeral. And does his dream came true, ask a critic he may say the rights which are granted are still too little and too less and are not still properly granted and they still they have no equal rights in all walks of life .But I like to humbly differ from their opinion Yes! They do not have equal rights yes! They still do not have equal opportunities

But as they say “if at all there was no man called king even god wouldn’t have been able to save the blacks “


By R. Aravinthan