Miscellaneous Post- Between Barack and a Hard Place

Miscellaneous Post

Between Barack and a Hard Place

For my Pol 201 class my group and I had to read an article by Martin Luther King Jr.  The article was called, "Martin Luther King, Where do We Go From Here?"  It was a speech given by MLK JR. that was about African Americans, and how poorly they were treated.  It also talked a lot about racism, and how the African American was often left behind.  They thought that because they overcame slavery there was no more racism anymore, but there still is.  So, my part in my group was to connect this document and how it related to today's current events.  Immediately the first thing I thought of was the video that we watched about the book "Between Barack and a Hard Place" by Tim Wise.  I could relate the speech by MLK Jr. to current events today because people think that just because we have a black president today that there is no more racism.  this isn't true there is still racism today, but there is a different kind.  Barack Obama is a well educated man, and African Americans will think that they have to be just as smart as him to accomplish something. Those African Americans will be judged, and treated poorly if they don't have the same amount of knowledge that Barack Obama has.  This shows that today even with our first black president we still have racism, and African Americans can still be treated poorly even though we know it is wrong.  I also related it to how Tim Wise talked about racism 1.0 and racism 2.0.  We have overcome racism 1.0, but now we have to put an end to this new kind of racism also known as racism 2.0.  I think it is really cool how we can be learning things that are completely different in other classes, but we can still find connections between them.  Here is the link to the speech that MLK JR. gave if you are interested in reading it. 

This video shows excerpts from MLK Jr's speech check it out!