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LAD/Blog #27: MLK, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech

What stuck out for me in this speech was is obvious oration, which I noticed before even listening to the speech. The most obvious device he used was his anaphora. Most famously, was his anaphora of "I have a dream", where he stated reforms he wished to see. But, what stuck with me more was his anaphora of freedom. His use of "let freedom ring" and allusion to the My Country 'Tis of Thee song was more important than ever at this time. In 1960's America, "the negro had been given a bad check, marked 'insufficient funds'". As pointed out by Dr. King African Americans of the time were subjected to police brutality, confined to ghettos, and constantly discriminated against. As he said, "1963 was not an end, but a beginning", a beginning of what we would later refer to as the civil rights movement. This movement was structured upon demands from men like Dr. King, and Malcolm X. In this speech these demands came in the for of his dreams. His dreams that stuck out to me were "that all men were created equal" and that "men should be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character". These stuck with me because of their persistence today. Luckily our nation has greatly moved passed the bigotry of Dr. King's time, but we have not moved passed these birth-right advantages he spoke of. Too often we see things like the memorial to Trump's $1.4 million donation to the University of Pennsylvania, and then we notice that Tiffany Trump attended the school yet doesn't seem to display anywhere near the academic or intellectual prowess any other person would need to attend there. We can see George W. Bush attending Yale with an sat score of 1206. We see Damon Wayans Jr. getting any acting roles at all (I really don't think he's funny). While the issues he was speaking on have generally improved, the underlying nepotism and birthright remains.

I have a dream speech:
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Nepotism:
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