Topic > Human Rights In 'American Oxygen' by Martin Morrison

Martin Luther King said “he dreamed that one day blacks and whites would go to the same school”. Martin Luther King was all about freedom for America. The American Dream video read “Martin Luther King was killed tonight.” A white man killed him because he wanted everyone to be equal. In the early 19th century blacks and whites were separated and not treated the same as whites. The black was not as free as the white and Martin Luther King wanted all men to be equal. “Oxygen” offers an unironic endorsement of the American dream, hailing infinite possibility and upward mobility” (Farber). The meaning of this is that America is not as free as it seems. Human rights are violated every day. One thing that seems very unfair to human rights is the death penalty. Electrocution is not the solution, it is not right, the government should not take a person's life based on what they have done." At least 4.1% of all defendants sentenced to death in the United States in the modern era are innocent” (HRV). Police brutality is getting worse, innocent people die every day due to the cruel actions the police do, they feel they can get away with it. “Every year 500 innocent Americans are killed by police” (HRV). Police also used tear gas against people without