When Martin Luther King Jr. wrote and then gave his famous speech I have a dream, I do not think only black people agreed with him or felt deep in their souls what he was saying. I believe the whole world heard, despite color or race they felt it and dared to dream. Dared to believe that what our great grandparents came over to America for would happen. That freedom of speech would be honored; the freedom to choose to be whatever we wanted no matter who we were or where we came from. I am white and many people discriminate against me for that, blacks, Indians, Mexicans. I know that it goes both ways, but my Great Grandparents came over to this country from Ireland, England, and The Check Republic. One of my great Grandmothers was full blooded Native American, and another grandparent was Canadian French. And I like to believe that they too dreamed, that there would one day be no racial divider, that we would not all live in our own little worlds, and hate each other if we were not the same, and even use words like they are from the wrong side of the tracks. They dreamed, big dreams, dreams that the world would look beyond skin, and race and simply love each other as human beings. No more fighting, hating and endless blood shed, in the beliefs that one race is better then another. Then in my parents life time Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech, and I believe all races dreamed. But alas that dream was shot down: or was it. For I too have a dream that we will finally stop all the interracial hate, and simply be humans, that live, work laugh cry and feel pain. And color won’t matter, were you live won’t matter, if you’re a Yankee, or a southerner. The constitution was written for all of us, no matter who we are. We are free to love God, we are free to follow our dreams, so let us really honor our ancestor, and one and for all put behind us the race issue, let us just be Americans, whose ancestors came to this fine country to give us a better life. Who worked themselves to death for us, let us never forget who we are, we are not a race or a color, but human beings made by a God who loves us all not matter what we do. He does not see our skin color He sees our heart, and that is what we need to do, we need to see the heart of the matter, and look beyond the external and look at the internal man. Let us all dream a dream.
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