I still believe! Oh God Almighty, I still believe!

here it is, the hopefully soon to be famous speech by moi!

I still believe! Oh God Almighty, I still believe!

I believe God does everything for a reason.
I believe there’s a reason I am here.
There’s a reason God put me on this Earth.
There’s a reason God put you on this Earth too.
But I believe I have found the reason I am here.
I believe here is the reason God put me on this Earth.

“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.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The “I have a dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr. is about 40 years old!

And yet, the dream still hasn’t come!
Even though we think it did…

We still judge people by how they look on the outside,
and we don’t take time to get to know them on the inside.
I don’t think it’s fair. I really don’t think it fair.
There’s so much more to a person than what they look like.
There’s intelligence and wisdom.
There’s kindness and there’s personality.

But people become so blind and they can’t look past the looks.
And if they look good, we tend to associate them with a good personality. I mean it is sometimes true, but most of the time it isn’t.

And there IS still so much racism in the world today…
and discrimination and prejudice too!

The only reason: We already have this image set in our heads of what they would be like if we ever talked to them because, God forbid, getting to know them past their looks is a sin, right?

But I have the same dream!
Martin Luther King’s dream.
The dream he introduced to us forty years ago.
The dream of hope and equality.
The dream that was fought against the Jim Crow laws.

But that same dream, even after all his hard work and all that time between then and now, still hasn’t come.

After three hundred and sixty years, we still have same stereotypes.
After three hundred and sixty years, we still have same prejudices.
After three hundred and sixty years, we still discriminate against people.
After three hundred and sixty years, some people even support it.
After three hundred and sixty years, we still use violence to get the word out.
After three hundred and sixty years, we still hate the people who are not like us.
And after three hund and sixty years, we still haven’t made much progress.

And we think racism just disappeared because nobody talks about it anymore.

I still believe in this dream!
I still believe we can achieve this dream!
I still believe! Oh God Almighty! I still believe!

Yes! I have the same dream, the same dream of hope, the light at the end of the tunnel! And yes I too also see it! Dr. King saw it fifty years ago, and I see it too!
Yes! I have the same dream, the same dream of true equality, where everyone, and i mean everyone around the world, is treated in the same way, no one lesser, no one better!
And yes! I have the same dream, the same dream of our true liberties, where we have all of our liberties and they are not taken away from us!
Yes! I have the same dream, the same of honesty, a day when saying the truth and fighting for your rights and your true liberties will be rewarded, not punished.

Oh! But I still believe in the dream! One must have faith in humankind! I still do!

Yes! I have the same dream that one day all the people around the world would come together as one species, as one human race, and we would not be judged whether we are African, Asian, Indian, or Muslim,
A day when white and black are considered the same,
A day when African and Indian are considered the same,
A day when Muslim and Asian are considered the same!

Yes! I have the same dream that one day we will see that we are all the same in the eyes of God and no one superior,
A day when we stop categorizing people into groups,
A day when we know we are all different and learn embrace and celebrate those differences
A day when all the anger in world will be gone,
A day when we see that there’s no right religion or right color of skin or right way to look beautiful,
A day when one day when we find out that beauty is in everyone,
A day when one day we won’t have to look for it.

Oh I still believe! Oh God Almighty! I still believe!

Yes! I have the same dream that one day, people will learn and to listen to each other and teach each other to listen with all their hearts,
A day when we will learn to speak and teach each other to speak with all their hearts,
A day when one day we the people won’t be weakened or destroyed by our concept of race but be strengthened by the concept of listening with our hearts!
A day when we won’t be weaken by the facts that our eyes say, but be strengthened by listening to our hearts
A day when we will finally abandon what our eyes say.
A day when we use of eyes to find good in all people.

I have the same dream that one day we the people will not categorize ourselves into “races” and people will see who the others really are,
A day when the saying, “The eyes are the window to the soul.” would be on everyone’s lips,
A day when people will look into each other eyes and truly see their soul.
A day when love is taught and to hate someone is be punished,
A day when there’s no concept of racism and the concept of identifying against,
A day when the miracle of hope is present in every heart and mind
A day when we have time and take the time to get to know each other

I still believe in the dream! One must have faith in humankind! Oh I still believe!

I still have the same dream that one day people will abandon stereotypes and not act on their prejudices and not support the discrimination,
A day when we will be respected for who they are and not hated because we dont support who the other people support,
A day when discrimination will be truly punished and put to jail for,
A day when true hope will shine in the hearts of little children,
A day when they are and we are truly happy to be who we are,
A day when we abandon all the anger and hate
A day when we know that these stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination will only lead us to go round and round in a vicious cycle.

Oh I still believe in the dream! Yes! I do believe!

I have the same dream that one day we will finally see that race is not based on the biological aspects,
A day when we finally see that race is a social concept
A day when we finally abandon it, and see each other for the way we truly are.
A day we won’t be too busy fighting to see the real problem on the earth.

But I have the same dream that one day people will not be judged by the clothes they wear or how fat or skinny we are or how much make up we put on,
A day when we are all considered beautiful in our own way because everyone is different,
A day when the outside will not become a barrier to look what is really inside the person,
A day when a person will show true happiness inside and outside.

Oh yes! God Almighty! I still believe!

I have the same dream that one day we will all teach our children to love all “races” and teach them to love themselves too,
A day when we teach our children that you dont have to look skinny to be beautiful,
A day when we don’t teach our children the poison of hate of the “others” and the hate toward their bodies,
A day when our children could be truly free to express themselves without being judged by their friends or classmates
A day when we teach our children that they dont have to fit in or be popular to be themselves, or to be liked by other people,
A day when people will see that standing out is not the worse thing in the world,
A day when we wont conform with people, even though we know they are wrong,
A day when there’s no jocks, and cheerleader, and punk, and goths, but there will be just children in our school,

I have the same dream that one day people will see though other people and look past that other people are different from them,
A day when we are not consumed in what a person looks like,
A day when we still have hope for people,
A day when we see something wrong being done, we do something about it,
A day when we stand up for what we believe is right,
A day when we say that we are sad, we truly mean and when we say that we are happy, we truly mean it.

Oh yes! God Almighty! I still believe!

I have the same dream that one day we will teach our children that you don’t have to look a certain way to be beautiful and that the word “hot” really doesn’t biologically exist,
A day when people will judge other people and other people judge us by the character they and we have,
A day when people will realize that we are flawed and we can’t be perfected, no matter how hard we try,
A day when we realize we don’t need to be perfected,
A day when people won’t be so blind to the media!

I have the same dream that one day we will all finally break free from these chains, break free from the chains of discrimination, break free from the chains of prejudice, break free from the chains of the hatred and anger that is in this world right now.

I have a dream that one day we will get to understand why God made the world the way he did!

And that will be the day when people are going to be truly happy and the people won’t be so blind anymore.

One must have faith in humankind! And oh! I still believe!

How do stereotypes create prejudice or even discrimination in today’s society?

I saw someone post this question and i would love to address that…

“to be prejudice is to have a negative attitude that is held toward members of a group…
like other attitudes it has three components:
belief: all indians are alcoholics, muslims are terrorist, african americans are gangsters
emotions: i hate jews, i loathe asians, i despise iraqis
behavorial dispositions: i would never hire a mexican, i would never sit with an african american, if my kid was a lesbian, i would kill her.

prejudices are not limited to racial groups. women, homosexuals, the aged, the disabled, and the mentally ill are also targets for prejudices. even cliques at schools are targets too. thus many people hold prejudicial attitudes toward one group or another, and many have been victims of prejudice.

prejudice may lead to discrimination, which involves behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward members of a group.”

processes that promote prejudices…
where do we get most of our stereotypes from?
if you think about it for a sec, you will realize that almost everyone in the US has a television.
and so almost everyone watches it.
theres so much, these days, about how muslims are terrorists and about how muslims are commanded to kill the “infidel”, so i believe we get most of our stereotypes from the media.

why is stereotyping so easy to promote?
i have two reasons…
the media takes advantage of the fact that people are ignorant…
they have no prior knowledge of the subject… they won’t know if it’s right or wrong…
some people are like sheep and believe what the media tells them… 
so the people in the media say, “lets give them the knowledge, and they will believe anythin we say. they wont know if it’s right or wrong.”
this is the most obvious way of the promoting the stereotypes of islam.

and one of the reasons is fear…
when people are afraid of something, they tend to keep away from it.
my impression is that racist people are afraid that african americans will rob them.
people are afraid to admit that they are gays because they are afraid to be hated on by their family and friends and society.
people are afraid to admit that they are ocd or schizophernic because of the stigma that the mentally ill have…
people are afraid to be identified as muslim because of the stigma that the muslims have

“according to the social identity perceptive, self esteem depends on both personal and social identity. social identity refers to the pride derive from membership in various groups. the theory purposes that self esteem can be undermined by either threat to personal identity or social identity. threats to both personal and social identity may motivate efforts to restore self esteem, but threats to social identity are more likely to provoke responses that promotes prejudices and discrimination. when social identity is threatened, individuals may react in two ways to bolster it. one common  response is to show ingroup favoritism, for example, tapping an ingroup member for a job opening, or rating the performance of an ingroup member higher than that of an outgroup member. a second common reaction is to engage in outgroup derogation, in other words, to “trash” outgroup that are perceived as threatening. outgroup derogation is more likely when people identify especially strongly with the threatened ingroup. when people degorate an outgroup, they tend to feel superior as a result, and this feeling helps to affirm self worth. these unfortunate reactions are not inevitable, but threats to social identity represent yet another dynamic process that can foster prejudice.”

note: the first part and the last part is from my psych book, the middle part is from me.

Oh! God Almighty! I still believe!

I believe God does everything for a reason.
I believe there’s a reason I am here.
There’s a reason God put me on this Earth.
There’s a reason God put you on this Earth too.
But I believe I have found the reason I am here.
I believe here is the reason God put me on this Earth.

 “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.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The “I have a dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr. is about 50 years old!

 

 

 

And yet, the dream still hasn’t come!
Even though we think it did… 

 

We still judge people by how they look on the outside,
and we don’t take time to get to know them on the inside.
I don’t think it’s fair. I really don’t think it fair.

There’s so much more to a person than what they look like.
There’s intelligence and wisdom.
There’s kindness and there’s personality.

 

But people become so blind and they can’t look past the looks.

And if they look good, we tend to associate them with a good personality. I mean it is sometimes true, but most of the time it isn’t.

 

And there IS still so much racism in the world today…
and discrimination and prejudice too!

 

The only reason: We already have this image set in our heads of what they would be like if we ever talked to them because, God forbid, getting to know them past their looks is a sin, right?

But I have the same dream!
Martin Luther King’s dream.
The dream he introduced to us fifty years ago.
The dream of hope and equality.
The dream that was fought against the Jim Crow laws.

 

But that same dream, even after all his hard work and all that time between then and now, still hasn’t come.

 

After three hundred and sixty years, we still have same stereotypes.
After three hundred and sixty years, we still have same prejudices.
After three hundred and sixty years, we still discriminate against people.
After three hundred and sixty years, some people even support it.
After three hundred and sixty years, we still use violence to get the word out.
After three hundred and sixty years, we still hate the people who are not like us.
And after three hund and sixty years, we still haven’t made much progress.

 

 

And we think racism just disappeared because nobody talks about it anymore.

Just because we dont talk about it doesnt mean that its not there anymore… 

 

 

I still believe in this dream!
I still believe we can achieve this dream!
I still believe! Oh God Almighty! I still believe!

 

Yes! I have the same dream, the same dream of hope, the light at the end of the tunnel! And yes I too also see it! Dr. King saw it fifty years ago, and I see it too!
Yes! I have the same dream, the same dream of true equality, where everyone, and i mean everyone around the world, is treated in the same way, no one lesser, no one better!
And yes! I have the same dream, the same dream of our true liberties, where we have all of our liberties and they are not taken away from us!
Yes! I have the same dream, the same of honesty, a day when saying the truth and fighting for your rights and your true liberties will be rewarded, not punished.

 

 

Oh! But I still believe in the dream! One must have faith in humankind! I still do!

 

Yes! I have the same dream that one day all the people around the world would come together as one species, as one human race, and we would not be judged whether we are African, Asian, Indian, or Muslim,
A day when white and black are considered the same,
A day when African and Indian are considered the same,
A day when Muslim and Asian are considered the same!

 

Yes! I have the same dream that one day we will see that we are all the same in the eyes of God and no one superior 
A day when we see there’s no right religion or right color of skin or right way to look beautiful,
A day when one day when we find out that beauty is in everyone,
A day when one day we won’t have to look for it. 

 

Oh I still believe! Oh God Almighty! I still believe!

 

Yes! I have the same dream that one day, people will learn and to listen to each other and teach each other to listen with all their hearts,

A day when people will learn to speak and teach each other to speak with all their hearts,
A day when one day we the people won’t be weakened or destroyed by our concept of race but be strengthened by the concept of listening with our hearts!
A day when we won’t be weaken by the facts that our eyes say, but be strengthened by listening to our hearts
A day when we will finally abandon what our eyes say.
A day when we use of eyes to find good in all people.

 

I have the same dream that one day we the people will not categorize ourselves into “races” and people will see who the others really are,
A day when the saying, “The eyes are the window to the soul.” would be on everyone’s lips, and people will look into each other eyes and truly see their soul.
A day when love is taught and to hate someone is be punished,
A day when there’s no concept of racism and the concept of identifying against,
A day when the miracle of hope is present in every heart and mind
A day when we have time and take the time to get to know each other

 

I still believe in the dream! One must have faith in humankind! Oh I still believe!

I still have the same dream that one day people will abandon stereotypes and not act on their prejudices and not support the discrimination,
A day when true hope will shine in the hearts of little children,
A day when we are not afraid to show who we are
A day when we are truly happy to be who we are,
A day when we abandon all the anger and hate
A day when we know that these stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination will only lead us to go round and round in a vicious cycle.

Oh I still believe in the dream! Yes! I do believe!

 

I have the same dream that one day we will finally see that race is not based on the biological aspects,
A day when we finally see that race is a social concept
A day when we finally abandon it, and see each other for the way we truly are.
A day we won’t be too busy fighting to see the real problem on the earth. 

But I have the same dream that one day people will not be judged by the clothes they wear or how fat or skinny we are or how much make up we put on,
A day when we are all considered beautiful in our own way because everyone is different,
A day when the outside will not become a barrier to look what is really inside the person,
A day when a person will show true happiness inside and outside.

 

 

 

Oh yes! God Almighty! I still believe!

 

I have the same dream that one day we will teach our children to love all “races” and teach them to love themselves too,
A day when we don’t teach our children the poison of hate of the “others” and the hate toward their bodies,
A day when our children could be truly free to express themselves without being judged by their friends or classmates

 

I have the same dream that one day people will see though other people and look past that other people are different from them,
A day when we are not consumed in what a person looks like,
A day when we still have hope for people,
A day when we say that we are sad, we truly mean and when we say that we are happy, we truly mean it.

Oh yes! God Almighty! I still believe!

 

I have the same dream that one day we will teach our children that you don’t have to look a certain way to be beautiful and that the word “hot” really doesn’t biologically exist,
A day when people will judge other people and other people judge us by the character they and we have,
A day when people will realize that we are flawed and we can’t be perfected, no matter how hard we try,
A day when we realize we don’t need to be perfected,
A day when people won’t be so blind to the media!

 

I have the same dream that one day we will all finally break free from these chains, break free from the chains of discrimination, break free from the chains of prejudice, break free from the chains of the hatred and anger that is in this world right now.

 

I have a dream that one day we will get to understand why God made the world the way he did!

 

And that will be the day when people are going to be truly happy and the people won’t be so blind anymore.

 

One must have faith in humankind! And oh! I still believe!