question_answer 9)

Read the following passage from a famous speech by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963. Which social division is he talking about? What are his aspirations and anxieties? Do you see a relationship between this speech and the incident in Mexico Olympics mentioned in this chapter?   “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children—black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics—will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ I have a dream that one day 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 equal’.”

Answer:

There is mention of racial discrimination in the speech of Martine Luther King Jr in 1963. His aspirations were the freedom ring in every village,every halmet. every state and every city, He thought that one day the freedom ring will ring and he has a dream that his four little children will one day live in a nation where they will they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but the content of their character. Yes, there is a relationship between this speech and the incident in the Mexico Olympics. There was an expression of racial discrimination there by Tommic Smith and Juan Carlos. There were African-Americans who faced the racial discrimination.