How Barack Obama is Using the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King to Increase Awareness of This Country's Lack of Unity

Barack Obama spoke of Dr. Martin Luther King and the seriousness of this country's deficit in both unity and empathy in a speech at an Atlanta church on Monday.

He not only spoke about equal rights for African Americans, but for Americans as a whole. Dr. Martin Luther King has said that "unity is how we shall overcome." By saying this he meant that the only way for us to improve our country and its ways is to unite so that we are not only one voice, but a group of voices that has no choice but to be heard.

Barack Obama addresses America's desperate need to face the facts about where are country is heading and the dangers to society. Without empathy how can we possibly change what needs changed.

"Young American's serve tour after tour in a war that should have never been waged" he said.

Average Americans are the ones dealing with the consequences of our current government's mistakes and pride not those who waged the war or continue to keep it going.

"We long for unity, but we are not willing to pay the price," he says.

If everyone would just simply put themselves in the shoes of those in which they persecute America as a whole could become a stronger more unified country. By doing this our unity could stand up and conquer the government's negative responses to important issues.

"If we are honest with ourselves we must admit that our hands aren't entirely clean," he says. Honesty is the first step to empathy. We cannot empathize with things we do not understand, he told the congregation.

Barack Obama feels that if we look back at the trials and triumphs or Dr. Martin Luther King we will learn about how unity is achieved and desperately needed to shape the future of our country. He speaks on health care and how lenders are profiting abundantly from families that lose their homes.

"Our veterans are homeless and sleeping on the streets," Obama said.

Our government doesn't seem to care about those who do not pay taxes or those who have fallen to the bottom. Our government is more concerned with rebuilding countries in which we have bombed rather than providing a meal to the veteran that has played an important role in what are country is today and the freedom that is so often taken for granted. Empathy for those who are different is the cornerstone in our long road to unity.

I can see African American voters voting for Barack Obama because his beliefs and political structure is similar to that of Dr. Martin Luther King. I think that they will look at Barack as a new age Dr. Martin Luther King and vote for him because they believe that with him in office they will receive greater equality in this country.

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