Economics sphere: Song "I have a dream" by Common and Will.I.Am and the connection with Martin Luther "The King" Jr.

I am happy

Iam happy
I am I am happy

[Soundclip: I have a dream]

I got a dream

[One day]

We gonna work it out oh oh

We gonna work it out

[Soundclip: I have a dream]

I got a dream

We gonna work it out oh oh

we gonna work it out oh oh

we gonna work it out

[Soundclip: I have a dream]

I got a dream

[that one day]

that one day

all of the people and myself

are gonna find a better way

My dream is to be free

my dream is to be

my dream my dream is to be

my dream is to be

my dream is to be free

A search for brighter days

I ride through the maze of the madness

struggle is my address

where pain and crack lives

gunshots coming from sounds of blackness

given this game with no time to practice

born on the blacklist

told I'm a little average

A life with no cabbage

that's no money if you're from where I'm from

funny,

I just want some of yours son

dark clouds seem to follow me

alcohol that my pops swallowed bottle me

no apology

I walk with a boulder on my shoulder

it's a cold war

I'm a colder shoulder

I fight the same fight that made

Martin Luther the king

I ain't usin' it for the right thing

in-Between lean and the fiends

hustle and the schemes

I put together pieces of a dream

I still have one

I am happy

I am I am happy

[Soundclip: I have a dream]

I got a dream

[One day]

We gonna work it out oh oh

We gonna work it out

[Soundclip: I have a dream]

I got a dream

We gonna work it out oh oh

we gonna work it out oh oh

we gonna work it out

[Soundclip: I have a dream]

I got a dream

[that one day]

that one day

I'ma look deeper than myself

are gonna find a better way

My dream is to be free

my dream is to be

my dream my dream is to be

my dream is to be

my dream is to be free

The world see me lookin' in the mirror

images of me gettin' much clearer

dear self,

I wrote a letter just to better my soul

if I don't express it,

then forever I hold inside

I'm from a side where we outta control

rap music and the hood play a fatherly role

my story like yours, yo, gotta be told

tryin' to make it from a gangsta to a Godlier role

and Jewish people in cold caves

hate has no color or age

flip the page

now my rage became freedom right

write dreams in the dark

they far, but I can see em

I believe in heaven more than hell

blessings more than jail

In the ghetto, let love prevail

with a story to tell

my eyes see the glory of, well,

the world waitin' for me to yell

I have a dream

I am happy

I am I am happy

[Soundclip: I have a dream]

I got a dream

[One day]

We gonna work it out oh oh

We gonna work it out

[Soundclip: I have a dream]

I got a dream

We gonna work it out oh oh

we gonna work it out oh oh

we gonna work it out

[Soundclip: I have a dream]

I got a dream

[that one day]

that one day

all of the people and myself

are gonna find a better way

My dream is to be free

my dream is to be

my dream my dream is to be

my dream is to be

my dream is to be free

By. http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/freedomwriters/dream.htm

“A dream” written by Will.I.Am, who also does it´s chorus, and performed by the rapper Common. Originally written to be part of ”Freedom writers” soundtrack, (an hip hop film presented in 2007 regarding the history of African-Americans teenagers and the adversities that they face in their life’s) this song represents strongly Martin Luther “The King”, like they call him in the song, and his most known speech, the “I have a dream” speech. In this song we can see the fight against discrimination and that´s why the reference to Martin Luther King « I fight the same fight that made Martin Luther the king».

When it comes to the music video, it contains scenes from ”Freedom Writers” movie, mixed with partially animated sequences featuring will.i.am singing on a podium and Common rapping in hallways and rooms in front of stylized images of both the Holocaust and United States of America's black civil rights movement. Television footage of the "I Have a Dream" speech is displayed on monitors throughout the video. The images is intended to reinforce the song's messages of perseverance in the face of discrimination due to the non violent behavior of Martin Luther King, and hopes for a more racially tolerant world.

Martin Luther King was the inspiration behind this beautiful song. A man that had a dream of millions: to be free and equal. A non-violent activist and an important leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world. In this song we can see a reference to his non-violent behaviour when they say « I fight the same fight that made Martin Luther the king/ I ain't usin' it for the right thing».

Now we have some interestings videos regarding the "I have a dream speech" and the film "Freedom Writers"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Writers

Beyond "A dream"

Before we are able to understand beyond this song, we first need to understand what really an African-American is.

An African-American (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) is a legal citizen living in United States that have ancestry in an African country. Most African Americans are of West African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.

« I just want some of yours sun /dark clouds seem to follow me». Just this little part of the song show us the fight that African-American have to face every day just because they want to be part of a society that don´t accept them as equal because in our society black are always perceived as a bad thing, like we can see in this two sentences of the song « born on the blacklist» and « dark clouds seem to follow me». Although this fight for be a part of society, African American is the minority that, collectively, are more involved in the American political process than other minority groups in the United States and have also the highest level of Congressional representation of any minority group in the U.S. The African American trend to vote for Democrats because in the 1930s during the Great Depression, after Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program provided economic liberation to African Americans; Roosevelt's New Deal coalition turned the Democratic Party into an organization of the working class and their liberal associates, regardless of region. The African American vote became even more solidly Democratic when Democratic presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson pushed for civil rights legislation during the 1960s.

When it comes to the African American education, we have in this song the reference of how hard is the achieved of education by this people because in American their isn´t equal opportunities to black American and that leads to more criminality, addictions, poverty, broken dreams and African Americans tends to form gangs « where pain and crack lives

gunshots coming from sounds of blackness» that why in the song they make a special request « I just want some of yours sun» as a hope that things get better and that black people could have the chance to be part of the society, that black people could have the chance to exist «My dream is to be». By the year of 2000, the rate of literacy in the African American society grown a lot but it still is below white and Asian Americans rates. African Americans attend college at about half the rate of whites, but at a greater rate than Americans of Hispanic origin. More African American women attend and complete college than men.

Due to this advances in education, African American started having a more important role in the American society. Until 2000 most of the African American population had illegal jobs and most lived a life of deep poverty « that's no money if you're from where I'm from» because of the low rate of education but that changed, and now, the new generation of African-American have a proper job and a proper future like all the others Americans. This happened mostly because of the advances made during the Civil Rights era where the racial disparities regarding poverty decreased from 26.5% in 1998 to 24.7% in 2004 what leaded to the increase of black middle class. In 2004, African American workers had the second-highest median earnings of American minority groups after Asian Americans, and African Americans had the highest level of male-female income equality of all ethnic groups in the United States. Also, among American minority groups, only Asian Americans were more likely to hold white-collar occupations. Although this great jobs opportunities that African Americans had, when the companies where facing financial problems the first to be fired where black Americans what show us that discrimination still exist but is more often showed in times of need and depression.

Concluding, Martin Luther King still represents a great voice in the search of equality and liberty to African-American and great things where maid in his name, like this song that represent all that he fought for and against.