Draft 2 Essay Amhis
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Difference Presenting the Concepts and Issues of Discrimination Blacks in the
Context of the Concept of Independence in the American National Philosophy by
Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass
After I read “I have a dream” by Martin Luther King, I, maybe we realize
that there is something wrong about “free” in America at that time. The date of
4th of July 1776 seem like no value for the black people. In this
essay, I will discuss about the difference presenting the concepts and issues
of discrimination blacks in the context of the concept of independence in the
American national philosophy by Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass. I see
that between both of them showed different ways to express their feeling about
Black People. First, I will talk about the difference from way of their
speaking. The second, I will discuss about these from their ideology or social
condition.
The second, what does their social conditions can affect to their
writings or speaking? After I read their biography, I found some interesting
story between them. King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.
King became a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist. I found in the
website1 that King had some bad things in his life. Perhaps,
everybody have two sides in their life. King’s family was African-American Baptist
church. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had long been suspicious about potential
influence of Communists in social movements such as labor unions and civil
rights. Hoover directed the FBI to track King, and the SCLC, in 1957. In this
condition, I think is so contrast, he became a pastor, but join communist community.
If I see Douglass biography, he was different with King. Douglass was born in a
slave cabin, in February, 1818, near the town of Easton, on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland. He lived with difficult things. He prohibited taught reading by
his mistress, because he was a slave.
I think, their backgrounds make them different in their speech about
freedom for the black people. Douglass, lead his life as slave make him has an experience
about that. Many Douglass’ works were about slave. If I think about these, I remember
the different about Fanny Fern and Kartini. Fanny Fern became a feminist activist
after she had experiences about difference between man and women’s position. In
“Independence”, “Working Girls of New York” she mentioned how women were treated
at that time. So that what she was fought is about what she had. In other hand,
nn Emancipation (in Kartini’s word):
It was not only the voices from outside, from the
civilized, reformed Europe that I had heard that made me long for changes to
the present situation. Already in my childhood when the word ‘emancipation’ did
not yet resonate in my ears … there awoke in me a longing that gradually became
stronger and stronger: the longing for freedom and independence (Coté, 2005:
56).
Kartini did not have experiences about difference in societies like fanny
Fern. She learned many things from the Batavia. In Kartini’s words:
I am burning with excitement about this new era and
yes, I can say that, even though I will not experience it in the Indies, as
regards my thoughts and feelings, I am not part of today’s Indies, but
completely share those of my progressive white sisters in the far-off West
(Coté, 2005: 23).
Kartini’s condition was same with King’s. They did not have experiences,
but they lead “Freedom” and many people now regarded they were hero for “Free”.
What I found anything else is King plagiarized the “I Have a Dream”
speech from one given at the Republican Convention in 1952 given by Archibald
J. Carey, Jr., an African-American lawyer, judge, alderman, diplomat and
clergyman from the south side of Chicago.
Work Cities
King, Martin Luther. 1963. I have a Dream.
Douglass, Frederick. 1852. What to the Slave is Fourth of July?
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