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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
When white people cite this passage, they tend to replace "my four little children" with something generic—"people," for instance. The specific facts of 1963, of a caste of children born in a society that intentionally excluded them from opportunity, give way to an ahistoric (and therefore pointless) idealism. America is about how everybody is treated the same. Equality is replaced with equivalence.
When white people cite this passage, they tend to replace "my four little children" with something generic—"people," for instance. The specific facts of 1963, of a caste of children born in a society that intentionally excluded them from opportunity, give way to an ahistoric (and therefore pointless) idealism. America is about how everybody is treated the same. Equality is replaced with equivalence.
Oh my God. I'm sure this will go down like a lead balloon around here.
This place, that SOO loves to whitewash, distort and minimize who and what MLK really was, will not get or appreciate this piece. I'm willing to bet the farm on that.
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