Whereas Martin Luther King never changed or revised his beliefs. He believed in racial equality for blacks and whites, no segregation and civil rights for blacks in the USA, but he didn’t believe in using violence to get it. He used peace protests, political speeches, a bus boycott, civil rights movement and a talk with the US government. Even though others reacted with violence towards him, he always remained peaceful. A woman named Rose Parks started off the Bus Boycott. Normally blacks had to get up off their seats if a white person needed one; not racial equality. They walked to work instead, it was called ‘Walk to freedom’, even though black homes were attacked it remained peaceful. The bus companies were nearly bankrupt so the US government declared the Alabama bus laws illegal. In 1963 Martin Luther King led a protest to Washington D.C. were he gave the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech. There he talked having a dream were there was no segregation "Were little black boys and little black girls will hold hands with little white boys and little white girls” In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Whilst in 1965 the right to vote was granted to black adults, He was assassinated in 1968 in a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal. In 1975 he was appointed Dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg, the first black to hold that position. From 1976 to 1978 he was Bishop of Lesotho, and in 1978 became the first black General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. Desmond Tutu has formulated his objective as "a democratic and just society without racial divisions", and his main aims were: equal civil rights for all, the abolition of South Africa's passport laws, a common system of education, the cessation of forced deportation from South Africa to the so-called "homelands". Basically the same views and ideas as Martin Luther King. Recently, he has accused Israel of practicing apartheid in its policies towards the Palestinians.
In a speech in the United States, Archbishop Tutu said he saw "the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about".
Even before Martin Luther King and Desmond Tutu, Jesus talked about the fact that we should not be racially prejudiced. His point was that we should love our neighbor, no matter what. An example of this is the Good Samaritan. It is a story about a man who is attacked, robbed and left for the dead. A priest, a Levite and a Samaritan (enemy of the Jews) went past, out of them all, only the Samaritan helped the man and paid for him to recover. The Jews were shocked as they expected the Priest/Levite to help.
Racism can still be seen today, Stephen Lawrence is the most famous victim of a racial attack but there have been many others. On 22 April 1993 Stephen Lawrence murdered in Eltham, southeast London by some racist white men. A camera was hidden in the flat of one of the suspects, showing them brandishing knives and expressing violent racist views. The police who investigated his murder were called "institutionally racist" so they would have bias against Stephen Lawrence. So Martin Luther King did do a lot for Blacks but obviously not enough as some people are still against it, and react in very violent manners.
The majority of Christian followers use peaceful methods to put their beliefs about racism into action. They follow the examples set by Jesus and the Church, which say that racial differences are not important. The apostle Paul said: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28)
