Martin Luther King Jr. contended America had a “schizophrenic personality” and was “tragically divided against herself,” Jessica A. Johnson writes. What would be say today?
He continues to emphasize this point by explaining that the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness so powerfully articulated in the Declaration of Independence are “God-given” and that they are “neither conferred by nor derived from the state.”
The film argues that the American Dream is a myth and asserts that when African Americans were finally included in major primetime TV shows by the 1960s the notion of Black acceptance within our nation’s culture was merely the extension of an illusion. Today, there is still sharp discord in the country regarding our laws and institutions. For example, a
Instead, I think he would revisit what he told those newly minted Lincoln alums who were on the cusp of stepping into a growing integrated society.
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