His legacy inspires immigrants, and especially young "dreamers", to continue the fight for their

rights at a time when they claim to feel "attacked" by segregationist policies, just as it happened in
the 60s. One of the songs that always sounds at the concerts of the Irish band U2 tells of a man
who came in the name of love, a man who has never been the same and who was finally free
when, on April 4, a shot rang out in the Memphis sky. The theme is 'Pride (In the name of love)'.
The Baptist reverend whose legacy the first black president of the United States wanted to make
his own in the oath of his second term as head of the White House.

Although, according to a study published in 2010, in the United States, white families are still five
times richer than black families, the truth is that in that historical speech there could not have
been the slightest hint that, one day, the most powerful man in Earth would be of the same race
as the one who was killed, that April 4. That shot ended a life of struggle that earned him the
Nobel Peace Prize when he was only 36 years old, but he could not end the advances that
eventually equaled black and white.

Congressman John Lewis, one of this man's closest associates, said it on that day in January 2013:
"If this man did not exist, there would be no Barack Obama as president."

They make us realize that the struggle of blacks goes beyond achieving a reform that recognized
them the same civil rights as whites. It teaches us that their commitment and that of their own
was part of a larger battle to achieve social justice, as well as respect for human rights.

«This man was one of the leaders who appreciated the last dimensions of the fight for freedom»,
«During the 250 years, the majority of Humanity has overcome enormous systems of oppression
based on class, race or gender. The transformation of a world of peasants and their descendants
into citizens has been the greatest achievement of the modern era”

He dedicated his life to equality, justice and peaceful social change. Decades after his death, he
continues to inspire all those who fight around the world for human rights and human dignity in
the face of oppression, discrimination and injustice and bring it into context.

Black Lives Matter coalesced and influenced everything a bit, unique dynamics - the ubiquity of
smartphones, the persistence of an aspirational movement, the isolation of a pandemic - that
captured global attention. Black Lives Matter culminated the metamorphosis of a movement that
began as a hashtag (following the 2012 acquittal of the vigilante who killed 17-year-old Travor
Martin). Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, the "black identity extremists," returned, the fires and
looting, the shootings, the white vigilantes returned, the modern lynching, the old debates, what if
Malcolm what if Martin, what if riots or sitting, what if the dream or the nightmare.

The clash between these two titanic figures was repeated during George Floyd's protests. His
legacy has perpetually haunted the debate on which path to take: that of unwavering resistance
(by whatever means necessary) to systematic racism and structural inequality championed by
Malcolm X or through peaceful protest and civil disobedience, sustaining it over time, as proposed
the man of whom we have spoken. And it is that the terrifying video scene of a white policeman
nailing his knee in the neck of the African American Floyd, for eight minutes, partly due to its
brutal visual impact, has unleashed a very strong and generalized social protest, like those of the
decade of 1960 against the Vietnam War and for civil rights.

Each new case of police brutality, with the enormous income inequality between the black and
white population, the disproportionately high rate of African American prisoners, serves as a
reminder against the progressive vision of the United States as a post-racial society.

George Floyd's death is a painful reckoning with the American dream and its shortcomings, 57
years after Martin's speech, and only several after the Obama presidency.

The point and the counterpoint. Two opposite poles, two forces - facing each other? - of the same
fight. Malcolm X, Muslim, supporter of all necessary methods, outsider who denies the system. on
the other hand, a Christian man, a supporter of non-violence, an insider who believes he can
awaken the consciences of whites and win their support to reform the system. Two icons, two
martyrs of the Afro-American struggle, more or less the same age, with parallel but different lives
that had the same purpose. The Black Lives Matter protests for full and radical dignity and
citizenship for African Americans need both.

Finally, we can say that a new generation of activists from the Black Lives Matter movement has
taken up Dr. Martin Luther King's mission for justice and equality, and now continues his legacy.