In the speech, “I have a dream”, by Martin Luther King, he mainly talks about what minorities, mostly African-Americans, should do to come by their social status that enables them to pursue their rights as human beings. As outsiders in the White conquered society, the Negro slaves were trapped in their own small world where there was no hope to be a member of a big world. Why? That is because every possible way to the upper class was absolutely blocked politically and economically, and as a result, they did not even think of trying anything to cross the border. As time went on, the boundary was getting thicker and thicker. Even one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, th

In the same sense, my experiences testify that I have been an outsider all the time. For instance, when as a college student, I tried to start my own business with a cart in the middle of a big city, there was a hard-to-break boundary set by existing merchandisers. They did not want anyone to start a business in their territory unless he or she was a member of their union. Within their own market distance, they had built an invisible big fence, so their members only could divide the share. After several attempts for about a month with everything ready to start, I was able to get a permission to have my business in the city from the head of the union. However, that was the end of the start, and it was literally nothing to me because I was just allowed to sell my products within a small area where no potential customers passed by. Later I discovered that they did not see me as a serious and mature salesman because I was too young to own my business even though it was a small one. Eventually, I ended up with a near bankruptcy, and as an outsider I tasted a bit about what the reality of business world was like. In the society as a whole, however, the merchandisers in the city are also outsiders. Generally, people see them as not successfu

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Proclamation Negro, , Luther King, own business, promissory note, outsiders society, key world, negro slaves,