I have a dream...

I was going through the packet we have and I was just randomly stopping at stories/plays and reading them. I then got to Martin Luther King's speech and I realized the only part I know about is..."I have a dream." It's one of the most famous speeches in the world and I guarantee you that most people haven't even read it so I decided to go ahead and read it! :) It was honestly one of the most beautiful and moving things I've ever heard...if you stop and think about it you'd understand how talented and smart MLK really was. My favorite part of the whole thing had to be the 3rd paragraph when he writes

"But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred laters the life of the Negro is sadly still cropped by the manacles of segregation and the chains of  discrimination..."

This was an especially beautiful thing for me to read because while I was reading this, I put myself into their positions. Obviously I can't feel what they were feeling at the same time but I can sympathize with them. To think that we once discriminated against people who were of different color, it makes me think of gay people today and if we're putting them through the same thing. I mean is it really that different? People back then thought they were 100% right in their choice of segregation and by degrading blacks but aren't we doing the same exact thing to gay people today? It's a topic I would like to hear other people's opinion about, because to me I think it would make a good debate...