In the speech ¨I Have a Dream¨ by Martin Luther King, mentions racism and that the negro people are not treated like the rest as he refers to the symbol that America has given the negro people a bad check marked ¨insufficient funds¨ and alludes to Abraham Lincoln. Racism leads to lack of self love and the desire to feel superior. The reason why Martin Luther King thinks racism is important is because as he said, that people will not be judged by the color of their skin but their content of character. Racism is destructive due to the fact that in the fact of gaining the rightful place you must not be guilty of the wrong deeds. A way that racism affects that community is that it will make you commit wrongful deeds, it will soon degenerate into