TODAY IS THE OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY OF REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968):
The United States of America remains a major beacon of hope for global justice, human rights and democracy to the rest of the world in her leadeship roles as the richest and the only surviving superpower nation in this 21st century. The history of modern day America for a more perfect union where race or the color of a man's skin will no longer be more significant that his natural abilities will not be completed without mentioning the key roles played and the ultimate sacrifice of death that took the preciuos life of the late civil rights leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr at his prime age.
Rev. King's political ideology and philosophy of a "Nonviolent Resistance Struggle" aganist racism, injustice, discrimination and for equality of all races were shaped by the words and the teachings of Jesus Christ and the political philosophy and methods that the late Indian leader Mahatma Ghandi used successful in India aganist the British colonial power, that got an independence for the Indian nation in 1947. Today, India is an emerging market in world, a nuclear power nation and the world's largest democracy.
All the struggles for racial equality that started with race riots in the days of slavery in America, and then continued into the Jim Crow era in the southern United States, and resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 that freed the black slaves, all culminated in the civil rights movement led by Rev.King and other civil rights leaders in the 1950s into the 1960s that led to the official signing of the landmark piece of legislation into law which is known today as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AND HIS LEGACIES ARE BELOW:
Firstly, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes the American nation for the first time since it was founded in 1776 to be a global example of a nation of many union of races, nationalities, cultures, religion beliefs, political ideologies, economic theories and social affliations that is still striving on daily basis to become a more perfect union that will accomodate all these human diversities in life.
Secondly, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 now opens the American nation to legal immigration from all over the nations of the whole world. These new immigrants and the new Americans are direct beneficiaries from the gains of these civil rights struggles and the legacies of Rev. King. They now live, work and raise their families in a nation of laws where they are given equal treatment under the supreme law of the land.
Thirdly, tens of thousands of individuals from different minority groups since 1964 have taken the full advantage of the Civil Rights Act and had moved into positions of leadership in the different sectors of the American life, both in the private and in the public sectors of the our economy. American 21st century workplace, neighborhoods and educational systems are a direct reflection of the diversities of races as a result of this Civil Rights Act that is at work on behalf of all Americans and equally for all Americans and her residents.
Fourtly, any American today can aspire to become anything humanly possible in the United States without suffering from limitations and discrimination based on race, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status or religion affliation. History was made in 2008 when Barack Hussein Obama became the first blackman to win the presidency of the United States of America. This singular and the most important political development in America in the 21st century is one of the direct products of the legacies left behind by Rev. King.
Today, nearly 42 years later after Rev. King was brutally assassinated, his legacies continue to live on and on into the future. America is not yet a perfect union, but it strives daily to accomodate the diverse nature of its societies in the 21st century. Rev. King remains one of the most important national figures ever known in this nation that fought for an American that should work equally for all Americans and her residents.
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