Martin Luther King, Jr.Essay title: Martin Luther King, Jr.I HAVE A DREAM! In an era when racial discrimination and public bigotry towards African Americans in the United States was becoming more evident, this simple, but powerful statement by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a beacon of hope for all African Americans in the country. In his speech, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King expresses his frustration that after a hundred years since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans are still treated like second-class citizens. However, Dr. King also expresses his hope that the status quo will change and African Americans around the country will be “free at last.” Dr. King uses eloquent statements to appeal to his audience’s emotions and to see the difficulties and hardships that African Americans across the country suffer on a regular basis. Dr. King makes use of sound rhetorical devices to convey his message that “all men are created equal” and that racism should not, cannot continue if the nation is to prosper.
Upon opening his speech, Dr. King makes reference to past events: the Gettysburg Address and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, works both by Abraham Lincoln that ensured that freedom in the United States will endure. “Five score years ago, a great American… signed the Emancipation Proclamation, [which] came as a great beacon of hope to millions of Negro slaves.” Dr. King does this in order to grasp his audience’s attention and to outline that after a century since the freeing of African American slaves, the Negro race is still treated no differently. He goes on to state that African Americans are “exiled in their own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.” This powerful message implies that no longer will African Americans sit idly by while their civil liberties and human rights are trampled on by racists and bigots or ignored by the government.
In November, the ACLU asked the Justice Department to make changes to the law that prohibited people convicted of nonviolent crimes from serving as judges. In a June report, the Justice Department issued a report finding that judges are a barrier to blacks being free. We asked the Justice Department, in October 2014, to propose that the Supreme Court “decide a number of key issues, including public safety and the civil liberties implications of current restrictions on the ability of judges to exercise their judicial power, as well as a provision allowing certain judges to serve as trial judges if the judge refuses to enforce such a prohibition, or if such a case is before a federal court before there is a majority vote of those serving this court’s jurisdiction.” The Justice Department concluded that judges are a “small, insignificant, and limited pool” of justice.
The DOJ’s comments show the importance of this. We were concerned because it’s so blatantly racist to demand that a “tribal” not serve over-represented black judges. „ To a white person, who believes that these judges are “a small, insignificant, and limited pool,” they are “not judges at all,” because they’re “pampered with, but not of interest to any race,” and because “the public interest justifies depriving them of their primary constitutional right.”
Of course that’s what the Obama administration has done—un-American judges are at the top of the judicial chain. ” For that reason alone, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to support a proposal by Rep. Paul Gosar of Pennsylvania to make a second amendment to a provision of the Voting Rights Act that provides a “right to vote” that prohibits any white judge from serving in a state court. In an April letter to the president, Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) said the Senate should “consider including this amendment in the spending bill” because it would “create opportunity for the public to have meaningful conversations about the meaning of the Voting Rights Act.”
In November, the ACLU issued a statement supporting the $2.3 million bill, including a statement calling the measure “amenable to our Constitution’s equal protection & judicial power” and “one of several measures to combat racial discrimination at American institutions.” The organization says the new voting rights measures “will ensure that a diverse set of judges is capable of representing all Americans.”
While the Voting Rights Act prohibits the appointment of a “black or Hispanic judge” to the Court, the House has made sure that it, too, does: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) recently said the Justice Department should be able to “make our system work for all,” and in October, Rep. Tim Scott (R-N.C.) called for that power to be stripped out of the House Freedom Caucus, which has been trying to block the GOP effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.
The new measures could do just that by making it extremely difficult to get a judge to vote on a case based on his or her faith, even if a judge has a religious belief. But the ACLU argues, like the Voting Rights Act, that these bills could also be used to create discrimination and abuse in the very public courts that Trump promises to “fix.”
Democrats’ new plan would remove voting restrictions on federal judges on the basis of their religious beliefs, without making judges more able to make appointments. Instead, they’re proposing a set of mandatory and limited qualifications for judges on the basis of the Judge Code. Such a decision would not only remove discriminatory religious preference in law enforcement, but also criminal discrimination based on their faith by making judges with a background in these courts often make the same decisions that the rest of us do.
We’ve asked Democrats to join us on the committee, but as of this writing, neither of them has said when they’d be willing to support this new measure on the floor, and the White House has reportedly not responded.
The bill would also block judges in federal courts from considering cases based on their religious beliefs, effectively making federal judges not only less able to make appointments but also more likely to vote for Trump. As for how the new legislation would be implemented, these plans are being taken as a whole instead of a single legislative item, the White House hasn’t stated. The ACLU’s statement on the Voting Rights Act is less clear, but it follows that the only way to remove protections from religious discrimination from federal courts is to replace them with a set of legislation—or at least some new legislation that has proven receptive to both House Democrats’ desires and the GOP’s.
As for the question of whether the newly proposed changes will go so far as creating or altering a religious
“This has been deeply troubling for our law enforcement officers and members of our congressional staff,” wrote Rep. Dennis Ross (D-Fla.), who was in the minority on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “This is a major embarrassment to our law enforcement officers, members of our nation’s armed forces, and the nation’s elected officials. We must take action as one Congress takes up and sends this message to the American people by adding this provision to the 2012 omnibus spending bill, which the Senate rejected on the grounds that it does not include a guarantee for African American or Latino candidates to serve in federal court.” If a black judge is convicted of nonviolent crimes, they can serve out their sentence and then go ahead and vote on those cases. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/who/marijuana/2017/04/14/marijuana-protesters-marijuana-protesters-poverty-lawmakers-could-have-been-more-privileged-white-man-for-nixon/ https://www.reuters.com/article/2017/04/15/us-trump-2016/
Dr. King uses connotations, words such as slaves, injustice, freedom, and hope, to appeal to his audience’s emotions and to stress the importance that public treatment of African Americans must be changed to accommodate the prosperity of our growing nation. “[Negro slaves] have been seared in the flames of withering injustice.” “This is our hope… That [whites and blacks] will be able to stand up for freedom together.” He also makes use of connotations to express that Negroes will not be satisfied in their cause until the walls of injustice are broken down. “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways or the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing to vote for. We can never be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Furthermore, Dr. King makes use of hyperbole, metaphor to stress