Last night, I was watching the MLK movie on TV, and then I went to bed. I was approached in my dream by none other than Martin Luther King, himself. In my dream, he asked me to relay a message to the people of my time. I do not know if this was a real person, but he approached me convincingly that I was speaking to the real man.
He looked at me and said; I want you to speak to the people of your time about my dream. I looked at him and said, “Is this real? You died in 1969.” He looked at me and laughed and said, “I know.” He said, “I am aware of stuff in your time, and I have seen the heart of your time. I have witnessed what happened to George Floyd and Rodney King. I have also seen what happened at Our Nation’s Capital and I have seen your heart. I believe that you can speak for me to these people and in this age. I want them to make my dream real. I want you to put my words down on paper and send them to the American people.”
That is what I am doing to you because I am only relaying the message that was in my dream. I am going to do my best to relay the message and portions of this is paraphrased but I will do my best to remember everything to you.
Martin Luther King Jr’s message to the year 2022
Hello to the people of 2022, I know fully that many of you do not believe in the message that you are going to believe. Yes, I am Martin Luther King. When I was alive, it was a very different world compared to the world of today. I had to ask Lyndon B. Johnson to sign into law that every black American could vote.
Many states of that time did not allow Black Americans to vote and adopted illegal policies in order to hinder the Black Man from voting. However, in 2022 times, there has been a change and I am happy. What I am unhappy about is the continued hatred for someone of another skin. The continued hatred of another skin is still in the hearts of modern times.
I have seen on applications to get hired on some jobs that you continue asking about the color of someone’s skin. I have seen cops pull over a black man and they beat the man senselessly and used force with someone who is unarmed. I have also seen a lot of white people who do not look at the color of someone’s skin.
In 1965, I stood in Washington D.C. and said, “I have a dream.” That dream was that every single man and woman could hold hand in hand in peace. Yet, there are quite a few things that need to be changed in today’s time. I went to send a direct message to the President of the United States Joe Biden and ask him to change certain laws to stop the form discrimination on a job application. The company claims to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and yet, certain managers can throw an application in the garbage based solely on the color of someone’s skin.
There have even been age discrimination against people who are seeking work at a certain job. The person who is applying for the job could be 60 years old and turned away because of their age. In today’s times, it is not just the color of someone’s skin but other forms of discrimination. The people of your time have improved on discrimination but there’s still a need for improvement in your time compared to mine.
Your government needs to continue to improve the equal opportunity employer act. There is a need to enforce the policies to make sure that all sexes, colors, sexual orientation, and ages can get hired if they need a job. I am going to ask Joe Biden to change laws where applicants of jobs can no longer ask for age or the color of someone’s skin. This will prevent any form of discrimination.
I have also seen that our nation’s capital was bombarded by our own people who raided it. Why? There was a very racist president who stated in public that he did not like the color of someone’s skin. Yes, I was able to see him make the comment and certain racist groups were trying to get the man re-elected. Those people stood against this country’s heritage and violated the rights of everyone to vote.
Yet, I send a message to you to not let this happen. Yes, I still have that dream. That dream that every man and woman can hold their hands together no matter what the color of their skin is. We have come to a very long way from my time. Yet, there is still a need to improve to be able to accomplish that dream. I am sending this message to you beyond my grave and seeking that we seek to improve on that dream for all Americans.
I want to speak the term, Black Lives Matter. I sought that All Lives Matter back in my time. This is not just a case of someone being black when God does not look at someone’s color of skin. There have been racial deaths on Spanish people, Black People, and on colors. We need to address the abuse by police when it comes down to everyone. There have been deaths of Black, Asians, Whites by cops of different color of skin. We can not ignore the forms of racism by all color of skin.
It is our responsibility to say that racism is still a burden in these United States. It has improved since my time, but it still exists. We need to eradicate all forms of discrimination in America. How can we as American people hold hands when we see hate? I ask you to work on making my dream real. I may not be there in body, but I am still around in spirit. I am still looking down at my brothers and sisters of today. I am still looking for a change in America.
I am asking you to work on improving that change for the rights that we can consider all men and women as equal. That way we can continue to say, “Free at Last.” We are free today but there are people in this nation who wish to put us in bondage. They see the color and age of someone with the will to put them in a poorhouse. We ended segregation in the ’60s and we changed the voting of laws, but the battle is still far from over. We just need to tidy up America for full equality for everyone.
Martin Luthor King Jr
Transcribed by a dream of Kenneth Dennis
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