http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cb2JIlM5e4&feature=related
i like this video!
she IS absolutely right and i am trying to tell the world that… because i truly believe that… truly believe that it IS better to be yourself and be who you are than to fake something and pretend that you are something else just to please others….
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.
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 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.
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!
it really hasnt gone away. there are still people, ever non white american, including muslims who face racism every day.
i was shocked to find out the last summer that it really hasnt gone away.
i believe the concept of race is wrong
yes the europeans enforced it on us, but just can’t we look past that
i also believe that it weakens the human race because we are too busy fighting and blaming each other to see other real problems in the world today
there are so many other problems in the world than what color the other person’s skin is.
scientist say that theres a 0.02% difference in all of humans.
racism is something that is taught. we can think about how we teach acceptance.
“think about children in this country who have a white parent and a black parent (like obama),yet this country says that they are “black”. what does that mean? what happened to the white parent?”
ok just because you have an african american father and a white mother doesnt mean you are african american. it means you are mixed. the people in society today would disgree and disgard them as african american.
“the kkk doesn’t like anyone who isn’t white, sexist, and protestant”
We are born with characteristics that makes us all different… we can choose to acknowledge them or not…
We are all human beings… in the eyes of God, we are all the same
We are all one human race…. one species
We try to catergorize the human race into what we call “races”
That’s what creatures with higher intelligence do… they devise plans to catergorize themselves
We shouldn’t try to catergorize ourselves, even though we are all different
We should celebrate our differences, not try to use the differences against us
Like someone on youtube said, we use the concept of race for our survival, we tend to catorgize ourselves because we feel more comfortable our people who are like us.
The concept of race is a social thing. The europeans enforced the concept of race on the people.
Theres no gene that says you are african american, or asian or white or even hispanic.
If u analyzed what makes a hispanic a hispanic, u will find out that they either speak spanish, or if not they are from spanish america… that has nothing to do with what u look like or anyhting like that…
Its not racism if u look at someone that is very different from you and hate them because they are different, and not taking the time to get to know them. its called being superificial.
We need to look past our differences. And again, we need to celebrate our differences and not use those differences against us.
