Martin Luther King Center Brings Anti-Racism

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Racism is something that has been around, basically humans ruled the world” as you can say. This has been going on for a while now, it’s been getting out of control. You may remember Martin Luther King Jr. and, his famous speech “I Have A Dream”(Martin Luther KIng Jr.) this speech caused hatred on all the blacks and, he wanted to stop slavery, and racism with that speech. Racism is making our world violent and we need to stand up as a society. Racism has lead to violence, gun shots, and death. Certain people only care about where they come from or what they look like, For example “skin color, hair color, eye color, and where they come from.”(A. M. Buckley) People in this world are cruel and seem to put down others to make themselves …show more content…

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