How Do African Americans Fear Police Brutality And Injustice

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“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s truly sad how ignorance is the main thing driving this inequality that blacks have to face. In one of your most famous speeches, “I Have a Dream” I realized that you addressed many important issues. One being that people still look at African Americans as lost causes. Secondly, how protesting can make a huge difference. Lastly, Blacks won 't be satisfied until a black person isn’t a victim of police brutality.
During your time, African Americans had self-respect and showed others respect that made them respectable. Now that the respect for ourselves has faded away. African Americans aren’t treated with respect anymore. The way the newer generations were raised with ignorance and disrespect makes others look down on the whole African American race and judge. Blacks are associated with loud, ignorant, and poverty. Blacks were treated better before even though Blacks were judged directly towards their face. While now Blacks are Mocked and wanted to be like in a disrespectful way.
You also mentioned the benefits of protesting and its ability to make a great difference for the cause that is needed to be heard. “The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the …show more content…

Another issue that was mentioned in your speech was about police brutality. African Americans fear the knowledge that police brutality towards other African American victims is happening around them. Like you said, “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.” Police brutality has gotten milder but it 's still out there and to be honest, you would like how the world turned out. Black lives truly did get much worse. Now the inability to speak out against injustice, fearing the fact that officers could get away with anything unlike before where voices were heard and feel free to speak

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