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Martin Luther King, Jr. featured with a portrait of Ghandi. The photo was taken and issued in an edition of Life magazine.
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“Muslims are a minority,” she said.
“I think the speech has affected Muslims in the
lylve are perceived by the public at large. The
iy jpeople act may not change, but it has had an
^fect upon the laws and how they treat us. It has
pug lit awareness for Muslims.”
i Bai g said celebrating this day goes beyond King’s
jpThday; it should be remembered for his work.
“This will permeate through our hearts through-
it the years,” she said.
MINORITY PERSPECTIVE
Miguel Gonzalez, a senior business manage-
lenl major and vice president of Lambda Theta
jifii La (in Fraternity Inc., said he grew up in a city
fchere racial discrimination existed and was felt by
fmfiunity members.
“lldon’t think the message of the speech has
f^en accomplished because there is not equality
f' the world,” Gonzalez said. “Nothing will be per-
:t, but it has given people hope.”
Gonzalez said the speech helped minorities by
/ing them a sense of direction toward which they
’“(uld fulfill their needs.
“He helped us because he aimed toward mi-
irides,” Gonzalez said.
“The speech gave us hope and direction. It gave
promise; it brought us insight and it provided a
WOMEN PERSPECTIVE
Lovely Murrell, a senior anthropology major,
said the words of King apply not only to minority
groups, but also to the plight of women’s rights.
“Sometimes when people think about civil
rights they automatically think of African-Ameri
cans,” Murrell said.
“I would like people to remember, especially a
lot of the women on campus who now think that
feminism is the new ‘f-word,’ that civil rights
were fought for them. If it weren’t for the civil-
rights and feminist movements, they wouldn’t be
at Texas A&M.”
Murrell said although discrimination has been
banned from campus in the eyes of the law, it still
exists covertly in people's attitudes.
“As far as civil-rights issues or people getting
treated differently, nowadays I think it’s more hid
den,” she said.
“It’s not as open as it once was, and a lot of times
it’s hard for people to recognize. The people who
are saying ‘This is not right’ are sometimes looked
at as troublemakers.”
Murrell said people of different sexual orienta
tions often are overlooked in equality and civil
rights, even by other minority groups.
“Civil rights are for lesbians, gays, bisexual and
transgendered people,” she said. “It doesn’t matter
if you like them or not, or if you think they’re going
to hell or not.”
Murrell said there are many similarities be
tween the struggles of African-Americans and the
struggle of lesbians, gays and bisexuals for equal
rights, but not enough recognition.
“I think there needs to be more coalition-build
ing,” she said.
“Even though the lesbian and gay and bisexual
community is fighting for the same causes and is
sues [as ethnic minorities], we’re too busy identi
fying with one aspect of our life that we don’t see
the other people around who are trying to attain
the same goals. It would be better if those couple
of thousands got together and built a coalition
group, while not denying their heritage.”
“If one group is oppressed, everybody is,” Mur
rell said. “There’s still a lot of work to be done.”
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
Michael Stewart, a senior mechanical engineer
ing major and president of the Pan-Hellenic Coun
cil, said discrimination on campus today may not
be vocalized, but is definitely put into action.
“A lot of times, in words everybody is equal, but
in practice I don’t believe so,” Stewart said.
“A lot of people from my council were saying
how a black girl could get on a bus and some
Caucasian girls could get on a bus, and guys
would go out of their way to make sure the Cau
casian girls get a seat while the black girl has to
stand. That’s one of those things where it’s in
words but not in practice.”
Stewart believes certain groups will need to make
sacrifices for equality to become reality.
“I like to use the analogy of a Monopoly game,”
Stewart said.
“Everybody’s playing, but only a certain group
is able to buy up everything for the first two hours.
And then, all of a sudden, they say, ‘Now that we
own everything you are able to buy something.’
What can I get? Unfortunately, to rectify the prob
lem, somebody is going to have to give up some
thing for awhile. That hurts the people who have
to give up something, but if we truly want to equal
it out, that’s just the way it has to happen.”
Stewart said the leadership of King has greatly
inspired him as a student leader.
“When I think back on my freshman year here
it was very hard being at a school like this,” he said.
“The thing that used to get me through was
when I thought about people like [King] who faced
insurmountable odds. People like him died for me
to have the opportunity to come to a university like
this. I am eternally grateful to people like him and
the determination they had, and that gives me the
determination to go on.”
As president of an African-American fraternity,
Stewart feels ethnic pride and unity among races
can coexist.
“The key is not whether they are separate or not,”
Stewart said. “The key is ‘How do they work togeth
er’. I live in my household, and you live in your
household, but we still can be called neighbors.”
Inequality, disharmony, ignorance and fear. In
1998, these issues still plague the nation as King’s cure
is met with apathy and denial on college campuses.
Fortunately there are students who have been
inspired by King’s words and are attempting to ful
fill his dream.
However, the alarm King sounded against the in
filtration of inequality is too often memorialized by
students who get to silence their alarm clocks for
just another national holiday.
Quote for the Day
This week's theme; New Year's Resolutions,
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New Year’s resolutions are a half-hearted attempt to alter an intrinsic behavior
which you thoroughly enjoy. Why make ’em if you’re gonna break ’em?”
— Scott Galloway
Junior health education major
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