(16:45:57) Pt 1. "I have a Dream"

Speaker [00:00:29] Hello everyone, to everyone out here in this hot sun, obviously, it seems like everyone. Can you guys hear me out? Perfect. I was here, uh, a distance from the mic.

Speaker [00:00:39] I'm really glad everyone's out here. You guys came out in the hot sun to stand for what you believe in and it's beautiful that we have so many young faces and some old faces and these fall ages, people of all colors, willing to stand here together because of what's happening in the black community has been happening since the very beginning. I'm going to see, where I'm going to start with this. I'm to say I'm going to give you a little prolog. This country was originally supposed to be all equal. Initially, when it was really in the Declaration of Independence, the why was it not equal? Because remember, when it's really in the Declaration of Independence that all members opposed because equal. And the preamble.

Speaker [00:01:22] Now, George Washington and some of the other forefathers wanted to make sure that all states were equal during when they really freed themselves from the British. But you know what happens? They realized that if they were to make that a possibility, a Southern colleagues have to free their slaves. And that was really would be really inconvenient for the southern half of the United States. So they chose not to do that because when they were fighting the British Open to convenience and the war for the southern states to leave the southern colonies to leave and join the British. So even in that, I think is the same kind of spiritual lesson that in there, that they thought that maybe we can tackle the issue of racism, maybe in another generation and just hope that things will get better because, you know, they were hoping that if they founded enlightened society, maybe things in the future would be better.

Speaker [00:02:12] But, just what it was only a few hours ago, I found myself reading Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech. And I found something very shocking, completely alarming. I was blown away about almost how relevant his words from August 1963 it's written.

Speaker [00:02:32] It's 2020. What is the math? Almost 57 years ago, alright, is almost just as real, if not more relevant today. And I'm going to begin the speech right now. I have someone willing to hold the mic for me. Whoever gets here faster.

Speaker [00:03:08] I am 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. Five score years ago, a great American whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Is everyone familiar with that. Whatthe Emancipation Proclamation is. That freed the slaves. OK. Don't be shy. You don't know. But yes, I was talking to Free the Slaves.

Speaker [00:03:38] This momentous decree is a great beacon of light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been who have been seared into the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But a hundred years later, the Negroes is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still baffiling crippled by the manacles of segregation. And today we are dealing with economic segregation, opportunity segregation, the treatment of what we receive from our government as several forms of segregation, is still there today. One hundred years ... Chains of discrimination, 100 years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. As one of the most prosperous countries in the world. And people forget black people only make up 13 percent of this nation. So we really do live in a small island of poverty, in vacillation across Earth. So we come here today to dramatize this shameful condition. In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our public 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 whites men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Speaker [00:05:26] It Is obvious today that America has defaulted on that promissory note in so far as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds.

Speaker [00:05:46] But we refuse to believe that the Bank of Justice is bankrupt. You refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds. The great bulk of opportunity is nation has. So we come to cash this check a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take a tranquilizing drug of grandulism. Now is the time to make a real promise of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. And it's 2020, so sisterhood as well. Now is the time to make those of reality of all God's children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of this moment. This sweltering summer of the Negroes legitimate discontent will not pass until this is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality in 1963. But it's 2020, and this is the summer of the Negro discontent. It is 2020.

Speaker [00:07:09] The whole. I'm sorry, not done. Give me a second.

Speaker [00:07:16] There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship as rights as an equal citizen in this country. The world wins of revolt will continue to shake the foundation of our nation until the bright days of justice emerge. And that is something that I must say to my people. We stand on the warm threshold which leads into the Palace of Justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place. We must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. Oh, no.

Speaker [00:07:55] We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest generally into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community. It must not lead us to distrust all white people. Oh no. For many of our white brothers and sisters as... [who brought us here by their presence today] Have come to realise their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk we must make the plan that we will always march again. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking that the ??? of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the people are the victims of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies are heavy with the fatigue of travel, could not find lodging and the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. Yes, there's times people in the black community may sign up for an air BnB. And when they show up, they are not welcome to come there. That is still real here.

Speaker [00:09:23] You can not be satisfied as long as Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. You can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their adulthood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating for whites only, we can not be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing which to vote for. No, no, no. We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. I'm not un-mindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you... [video ends prematurely]