What Defines Our Rights?

What defines our rights?

On August 28th, 1963, Martin Luther King gave a very powerful and moving speech about freedom and hope. The speech begins with an ambitious tone when he says, “I’m happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.” His dream was presented to a hopeless audience, but quickly motivated a population to seek social change. Over 50 years have passed since he gave his speech. So has the United States actually achieved the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King? . Are we living in a country where the social class and/or the color of our skin defines the opportunities for each individual? Should we continue to believe that equal opportunities for all actually exist?

Fifty years later, discrimination against immigrants, police abuse minorities, and poor living conditions for the disabled, are still prevalent in our society. “When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”, The idea of US as a country with many facilities for socioeconomic mobility collides with reality; Despite the fact that the United States is the richest country in the world in absolute terms, the 20 percent of children under five years of age live in poverty, 44 million people lack health insurance, between 40 and 44 million people are illiterate, and 28 million do not have the food secured; The lack of basic human rights such as health insurance, food, and education cannot mean equality for all. ”It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.”, another form of discrimination or segregation is the current situation that has thousands of students paying higher prices for their tuition due to their immigration status; as a result, they must quit the right to education.

On March 13th, 2014 The United Nations Committee on Human Rights reported that in the United States racial discrimination occurs constantly in all areas of society, and specifically, in crucial areas such as prisons or schools, and one of the most prominent negative points of the members of the agency was the fact that, despite the existing laws and regulations, "in practice" racial discrimination is a fact that is constant. Walter Kalin said, “Discrimination is bad in any circumstance, but it is unacceptable when it leads to death.” The media event of Trevor Martins, the young man killed by a security guard who was apparently confused by an offender, makes an emphatic example on the line that separates the defense judgement between the color of skin from the right to life.

The racial problems we face today

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