Racial Tensions In Society

It was a sunny almost crystal-clear morning on Wednesday, August 1963, racial tensions have been at an all-time high in the United States and pressure was on the government to take action and finally give African-Americans the Civil Liberties that the rest of the population enjoyed. It was the day the March on Washington took place and over 200,000 people marched in order to protest racial inequality. Near the end of the demonstration, an African American pastor, Martin Luther King walked up to give his seminal "I have a dream" speech and from that day forward, a whole community managed to convince the Kennedy Administration to enact laws that gave African-Americans their freedoms. Such a course of events really showed the importance of freedom

However, even for a quote that is older than nearly anyone living in the present it speaks profoundly to the human nature that it applies in present time and past time. In a time of political tensions, a plethora of people are unraveling the fabric that has kept the values expressed by Du Bois, the value for criticism and honest discussion. Such values can extend to anyone of any creed and it need not matter whether the views are preposterous or downright offensive because it is that democratic fabric that will eventually lead to the greater prosperity of human kind. In the case of Martin Luther King Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement, it was the critique of the government by the

Some may argue that having a superfluous amount of opinions is unnecessary and actually serves to harm the order of a society. This type of negative sentiment towards democracy has been voiced by a diverse set of prolific thinkers from Socrates to Nietzsche because democracy has been shown through their experiences to be detrimental to harmony, or means of a hidden agenda(i.e. tyranny of the majority, or religion); a valid argument that can be evident in history. For example, when the Civil Rights Movement has beginning to take off, the majority of Americans did not relate to the ideals that it stood for. In fact, it was met with violent retaliation often with the help of the authorities and the powers that may be. The development up to the movement can be described as solid evidence that a democracy and the idea of ideas being shared in one place is ultimately going to lead to a dominating idea or force that will in turn result into some form of “pseudo-aristocracy” or that it brings chaos that could have been avoided (chaos that still affects society to this day). However, the fruits of open discourse has been evident. When the Civil Rights Movement achieved its goals, it brought on new culture, diversity, and ideas that could never have been realized with the previous status quo. Obviously, it disrupted the harmony or did not align with the majority at the time, but the fact that