I have a dream too

Two hundred and 45 years ago, a great American founded this country. For all white people in what was now America, this was a great step. The oppressive British boot had been lifted from their necks.

Over two hundred years later, the average American still feels trapped. Not by the chains of another empire, or the violence of another person. But they feel trapped by the apathy of their own rulers. And so it is important that I write this to illustrate such a hopeless struggle.

The founders of our country have many times had their intention to work in the interest of every American questioned. They claim to believe that “all men are created equal” and that everyone has a right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, and yet did not follow through on these promises for anyone but white men. But there is another privilege all these founders had. They were almost all rich, and mostly rich off the backs of slave labor. Even those who were not rich, like Adams and Hamilton, were soon invited into the highest echelons of society once they became high ranking government officials.

The working people of America have suffered greatly from their founders leaning towards the more privileged people in this country.  Low wages, insufficient labor regulations, and not enough policy supporting unions, the working class’s only defense. No matter how many people cry out, no matter how many protests, no matter how many strikes, the workers still struggle in this great, powerful, and wealthy country.

We cannot allow the ruling class to place it’s all too familiar boot on our necks.

Me

But we cannot give up. We cannot allow the ruling class to place it’s all too familiar boot on our necks. And so even as we will all have to fight through the same problems for many years to come, we should still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” 

I have a dream that one day every worker in the nation will be able to come home and say that they feel like they were given what they deserved.

I have a dream that every man, woman and child will not have to break themselves just to survive, but that their livelihood will be provided to the richest nation in the world, which can give so much more to its people.

I have a dream that every future generation will be born into a nation with no racial, sexual, gender based, or class based divide.

I have a dream that one day, the ultra-rich, holding more wealth then their hundred of millions of workers combined, will be forced to surrender their unspendable riches to the people who have built them up so high.

This is our hope, and the faith I will go into the future with.