I have a dream

Today, we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. In honor of what he has done, I wish to talk about him a little bit.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great minister, but he wasn’t just a minister, he was also looked at as a great philosopher, at least in the ethics department. He wanted to start a revolution by changing the way that we thought at the time, but he also wanted to go back to the original set up of the government. In other words, he wanted us to go back to the original set up of the government, knowing what we know now.

He was a minister during times of great struggle for minorities. Minorities were constantly getting abused and mistreated, but MLK wanted to stand up for what is right. His “I have a dream” speech speaks of society’s progression and the development of equality and even though we still have issues with this topic today, I believe that he would have been proud of what’s going on because there is so much more equality now than he could have dreamt of during his time.

Sadly, not everyone supported his fight for equality. On April 4, 1969, he was assassinated. Later on, an organization was created in response to this, known as The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.

MLK and Descartes are my two favorite thinkers because they have similar views, especially when it comes to equality. Both dealt with the idea that it’s not the outside that make a person and MLK taught us that we shouldn’t judge others just because they are a little different. Heck, if we were all the same in any way, that would make society completely boring and there would be no such thing as personality in the human race. In other words, we’d be just like any other animal, but we’re fortunate enough to have many different types of people.

It would be hard to talk about the end of abuse/disrespect of any group and not mention Martin Luther King Jr because he essentially spoke for every group, even though he focused on segregation issues, but his views weren’t limited to just one group.

Let me take this time to explain LRP by saying that it’s actually very closely related to MLK’s views. R stand for respect, respect being mutual understanding for each other. In other words, the golden rule. L stand for love and by respecting one another, you therefore show love. And finally, P stand for peace, because if you want peace, you need to have love, which you can get by respecting one another. When you put it together you get:

R

L P

That being finally explained, I have a great respect for MLK because he show that no matter what way a person is different, there is no justifying hurting/mistreating that person.

Compared to the past, I think we’re doing a great job with physical differences, even though we still need to work on it, but there’s another category we have to work on as a society-beliefs. The biggest differences we have now a days is the things we believe and see that world. For some reason, we can’t accept other people’s opinions and sometimes it gets so bad that it ends up in a war. Be it about religion, politics, or anything else, there has to be some way that we can accept other people’s opinions and not have to change ours. I think the thing is that we have to try and prevent making more of our opinions that what they are. In other words, your opinions, unless based on science or fact, is not truth, so you shouldn’t judge others based on your own opinion.

In conclusion, let me say that even though I don’t know you and you may not agree with my opinions, I still love you as a fellow human being and I wish you all the best. Happy MLK Day!