Promised Land!

   Cursing, sagging, skipping, fighting, apparently this is who we are, unfortunately this is our promised land! In the speech that Dr. King gave the day before his death he said " I've been to the mountain top.... And I've seen the promised land. i may not be there with you. but i wanted you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." Martin Luther King believed that even after his death, we as a people would achieve racial equality and he was somewhat right in believing this. If Martin Luther King were  to come to our school tomorrow, i am ashamed to say it but he would truly be disappointed with how we as a school see our promised land.
   The first thing you hear and see when you walk into our school are people cursing at each other and many people sagging. The cursing has even reached the point were it is just a normal conversation between two people. If our parents could hear how we talked in school they would strangle us and Dr. King would just walk right back out those twin doors. Sagging is just a pointless reason to show someone your butts which in the 60's was considered inappropriate. Both off these things together are just blatant disregard for authority (because of school rules) and  disrespect to those who raised you and those who fought for your rights.

   It seems as if every other day someone is picking a fight with another person. These fights are usually for infinitesimal reasons or just for "fun" as some would say. Martin Luther King lived his life by a "turn the other cheek" saying and asked his follower to do the same whenever they went on marches. Even for something as big of a reason as our civil rights he stood by his saying this was his "Cardinal Rule". On January 30, 1956 Martin Luther king was attending a meeting when his house was bombed. His wife and daughter were not injured but an angry crowd was outside his house when he came home. He preached non-violence on the destroyed porch to the crown even after his house was ruined. The only word that can describe our actions are pointless and childish but even children back in the day turned the other cheek!
   For the final 20 years of his life, Martin Luther King had fought for our Civil Rights, for racial equality, for equal opportunities and what do we show for it. Everyday people are walking through the hallways and playing around when they should be in class but they see nothing wrong with this. One of that Dr. King fought for was to have equal opportunities in school for black as whites but once we finally achieved this we are not taking advantage of it. The generations before us fought for the right to read, learn, write, and go to school and all most people can do is just sit in class doodling or skipping class and playing in the hall. We take our education for granted and Martin Luther king would have pity beyond belief for us because of our total disregard for what we have.
   At the end of the day Dr. King would lover his head, turn around, and go right back to his place in the after life baffled and ashamed by what we have become.