MLK Assignment/ John Lewis's Speech in 1963

On Martin Luther King's belated birthday several shows, and news channels basically gave us the same Plastic Postage Stamp that Andy had warned us about in class. The Plastic Postage Stamps are "stupid doll figures who are not human." What the media does is they condence the powerful meaning of something to little things that should only because recongized. I noticed that on the news they gave a brief summary or recap of what Martin Luther King did, and who he was. They rarely said anything about his personal life or how he became the man he was, as if he just woke up and became MLK the civil rights leader. When I asked a younger cousin of mine what he did in school the tuesday after Martin Luther King Day, he told me that they watched a documentary of MLK and also read the "I have a dream" speech. I asked him what did he learn from that and all he could tell me was that he risked his life fighting for black people to have equal rights. This showed me that he as well as I was learning the "plastic postage stamp" of Martin Luther King Jr. The media only wanted people to see MLk as some type of god, that couldn't do anything wrong. They never talk about his true hardships, which gives us the false image of him. This affects our understanding of the good and meaningful life because this is alternating the truth which affects our beliefs of mlk.
John Lewis was man who believed in true peace and equality. Here in his 1963 speech he talks about the fact that African Americans during slavery and proverty many people had to sacrifice their own lives whether dieing or going to jail just so others could live a better life. "We do not want to go to jail, but we will go to jail if this is the price we must pay for love, brotherhood and true peace." In this quote I agree with him because here he is sayin that we are willing to take a sacrifice only to benifit from it. this is a good example of what a meaningful life is because he is standing up for millions of people including himself inored for everybody to live a better life.