Human Right Movements in America

Today, incidently, I came to read something about Whites/Blacks conflict in America. Condemn it to my ignorance or my course curriculam, I had almost no idea about this. I had a feeling that White/Black conflicts in America are long gone before we got independence. Basically, what I used to think that Abraham Lincoln gave all the rights to Blacks, and that was it. How wrong was I? I was stunned to know that there was serious discrimination even till 1970's in the most progressive country in the world. The concept was 'Segregation' was inhumane and no man could logically accept that but it existed there. And it took a long period of civil struggle and determination to let people be comfortable with 'Integrity'. Leaders like Martin Luthar King Jr. had to sacrifice his life, I guess that made a very big impact, his way struggle and his famous words "I have a dream'. His belief of uniting America with all the White and Black people with equal rights, was more effective than any possible militant activies. One of the instances as recently as 1962, where a court ruling allowed a black student James Meredith, to be the first to enter the University of Missisipi breaking the 'segregation' rule. The government had to apply 12000 soldiers to stop any possible violence, yet the Governor of Missisipi stopped him at the gate of class, violence broke down. Later, an assasination attempt was also made at that student. What I am trying to say that how intense was this hatred for black people.

Today, all Black citizens I should say African American people of America are living with equal rights with equal power. This shows the great power of DEMOCRACY. Our past history says that humans by not very rational, we have natural feeling of downsizing others whereever possible and we make orthodox principles justifying that. Since such orthodox thinkings favours us, we don't want to change it, in fact we just don't want to see out of the box, looking rationally possible looking the picture from other's points of the view. Be it anti-semintism or religious wars or violent nationalism. Fortunately, time to time some great visionary people take courage to think out of the box and present some provocative ideas. Non other than a perfectly democratic society can allow such ideas to prosper. I think this is greatest power of democracy to allow criticism and to change with it. That's how anything can become strong and sustainable in long run. We are proun to be in a world where discrimination between all humans is minimum in the history of civilized world. HAIL DEMOCRACY.