There will always be racists. Life will be much better when you and those like you stop believing everything that doesn't go your way is related to racism.I think he'd be encouraged, but nowhere close to kicking off his boots and retiring. It takes a long, long time to change cultural attitudes; some of those conditions still clearly exist, and as long as they do, people gotta keep rooting it out like weeds in the lawn.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
Well, another three score years on, would the Dr. be encouraged?
Great man.
Well, anyone that would claim TODAY, that "the negro still is not free" would be full of shit.
Anyone that would claim that "the negro" is just living "on a lonely island of poverty" would be ignoring the large and healthy black middle class.
So, it would depend on what he was really looking for.
He might be encouraged, but more than likely not. America has been a country for over 243 years and still the same cultural attitudes exist in a segment of the white population. All whites weren't racists in 1776, so we gotta ask, "When does it end?"