Final Blog Post

Moisey Suleymanov

Prof: JrC

In this blog I will be focusing on the studies of Martin Luther king and incorporating it throughout the three classes I had this semester. I will be connecting to human rights in particular. Martin Luther King often mentioned Agape or loves; in order to promote his theory of non-violence. Within this cluster I was taking Linguistics class, throughout the semester we began to study how many languages are disappearing. Not as if they are just vanishing but people do not continue to speak the language of their culture. Many were not allowed to speak their language such as in Arizona, Native Americans were not allowed to speak their language. If a language other than English was spoken in school then there would be consequences that many would not want to imagine. Other languages such as Chulym just died throughout time. Chulym originated in northern Russia around Siberia, those who spoke Chulym, adapted to the Russian language overtime. In any case I can connect the issue in Arizona to Martin Luther King’s motive in acquiring rights for African Americans. If those who lived in Arizona promoted some sort of non-violent protest and showed the amount of love for their culture, their rights may have been respected by certain officials allowing them to practice their culture through their native language.

                As for my law and human rights class, the name speaks for itself. There were many major issues that we came across throughout the class that Martin Luther King came across throughout his lifetime fighting for the freedom of African Americans. We came across the issue of genocide, the Hutu and the Tootsie came across our class numerous times. The government divided people of Africa into two separate groups based upon social class. It was basically segregation one group had more rights than the other. During the time that the government had power they uplifted the Hutu people putting the Tootsies down.  I believe if the Tootsie people would have gathered together and stood up for who they are, nonviolently of course. Showing that the people of Africa are one by expressing love for one another, once again not the love that many may think of, such as romantic. Rather it was just a sort of love where you hug your enemy, love your enemy the way that God loves you.

The language of human rights is infinite, there millions of ways of expressing one self. The language of human rights may be interpreted in many ways. It can be from something as small as love that Martin Luther King used, another may be religion.  The love that King spoke of derived from the Christian religion. However today many conflicts are sparked by religion; which King used in a completely opposite way in order to put an end against hate and violence.  King used language to succeed in what he set out to do, the figure of speech that he used was strong, and it had a person in a completely different mental state of mind. Language has no limits; the sky is not even the limit. Although many cannot see the effectiveness of language, they do not realize that it is not their physical strength that promotes their ideas it is the strength of language.  If the all the nations throughout the world incorporated Agape to their conflicts bringing all the people together, religious conflicts would no longer exist.

In the beginning of the semester it was tough to see the connection between the classes within the cluster, however as we progressed through each class I began to realize that the connections are not going to be right in front of me in bold black letters. I worked around and realized that if we were to incorporate everything that we learned in English 101 with King then the world may have not been where it is today, with extinction of language, and genocide.