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Dr. Martin Luther King
IMAGINING A PRESENT DAY NOBLE PEACE PRIZE SPEECH BY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
The objective of this study is to imagine that if Dr. Martin Luther King were to win the noble peace prize today what he would say in his acceptance speech. This study will consider his ideals and principles when creating the speech as well as consider his noble peace prize acceptance speech decades ago.
The Speech
Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I accept the Noble Prize for Peace at a time when the first Black man is in the office of presidency of the United States and when the United States of America faces threats such as ISIS focused on destruction of our citizens, our Homeland, and our Democracy. The dangers we face in today's society is one that is not racially-based but instead one that targets our civil liberties and constitutional rights. This threat is perpetrated not by those of other countries or forms of government but is a threat that comes from within and is arises from militarization of the police and law enforcement agencies in this country.Over the past few decades, police and law enforcement has gunned down innocent citizens who are unarmed and killed them without cause. The most recent example is the case of Ferguson in which 18-year-old Michael Brown, a young black man was shot by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. The nights of looting that followed the incident, while rightly questioned by the American public contrasts starkly to the harsh police actions that included tear gas, rubber bullets and police dogs all showing a high level of disrespect by police officers for minorities in the low-income sector of society.
Today, there is a disparity of black men in the country's prisons and the majority of these individuals are incarcerated for drug crimes, drug crimes, I repeat. They are not incarcerated for murder, rape, robbery or even theft but because they were caught using some type of drug.….....