welcome to my life
It’s the ongoing screaming, and the jelly on the wall that makes me want to cry and yet I smile, I know I’m Home.
It’s the ongoing screaming, and the jelly on the wall that makes me want to cry and yet I smile, I know I’m Home.
“But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted andd your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of in feriority beginning to form in her little mental sky, …”
How do I feel about the following quote from King’s speech? It sticks out to me, because it shows in a way what King is really trying to say. In the quote King describes the effects of whites way of living, has formed an inpact on young black people, how it goes from the most unbereable sights of humane world actions, to the littlest and most earliest of develpoement of how whites were looked at in the beginning, even to children.