Sunday, January 18, 2009
on "Letter from Birmingham Jail"...
After reading Martin Luther King Jr.'s, Letter from Birmingham Jail, I believe that King made his point very clear and did it in a very organized and thought out manor. I feel that King's main purpose in this letter is to disprove these clergymens biased thoughts and get them to look at these issues through the eyes of a negro. King states some of these issues on page 182, " when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger" and your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are)." These statements are there to get the clergymen to realize what a negro has to go through on a daily basis living in the segregated and prejudice south. As you can see in the clergymens statement, they are looking at these issues with only themselves in mind, not thinking about how a negro may feel about these issues. King takes every one of the issues the clergymen speak of and break them down so they can understand the issue through the eyes of a negro. With such intellectual and comprehensive writing, I would have found it very difficult to disagree with the ideas that King brought up throughout this letter.
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The propensity of these Clergy members to motivate casually formal methods of little resolve is also countered by King in emphasis that acts of rebellion will not undermine or disrepute the civil effort, but will actually draw attention to its necessity. He stresses that a quieter route will leave the issue forgotten under parading advancement and accomplish little, thus his particular method of civil disobedience is necessary. His main disagreement with the Clergymen is not of the goal, but of the methods to achieve it. His experiences are yet relevant indicators of just how urgent the trespasses are.
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