Are We Free Yet

Are We Free Yet?
By Chantel Hollowell

“…The Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and by the chains of discrimination.” Unfortunately, forty years from Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech this statement he made, still holds truth. One hundred and forty years from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, we must face that Blacks are still not free. Blacks are currently suffering from the oppression that happened in the past. Blacks are still not free because their democratic rights are not equal to Whites, they fall behind Whites in education, and there is still racial injustice in the judicial system. Blacks have been given the same rights as Whites, but Blacks are still not equal to Whites. It should be possible for every American to enjoy the privileges of being an American without regard to their race, but this is not the case.
Although the United States is a democratic country, today Blacks are still not free because...