A Discussion of Martin Luther King Jr.s Letter From Birmingham City Ja

A Discussion of Martin Luther King juniors Letter From Birmingham urban center JailMartin Luther King Jr. discusses the advantages and purposes for his theory of nonviolent direct action in his Letter From Birmingham City Jail. He shows four basic stairs that must be taken to achieve nonviolent action. They include 1) collection of facts to determine whether injustices are unrecorded 2) negotiation 3) self-purification and 4) direct action. Each of these ill-treats will be explained as part of Kings argument later in this essay. The main purpose of a nonviolent campaign is to force any community to confront a problem alternatively than refuse to negotiate or face a specific issue. In the letter, King discusses his groups reasons for coming to Birmingham. He states that Birmingham is probably the roughly thoroughly segregated city in the United States and that much abandon has taken place against Negroes there. He goes on to discuss how his attempts to negotiate with fair mer chants to remove racially offensive signs from store windows had failed. This caused King and many others to arrest discontent. There was also resentment towards white people because Negroes made up an overwhelmingly siz subject part of the poor. Violence had evoked a misgiving in all Negroes, and resentment built up against the whites. King discusses how leadership have asked him to wait to take action, but he rejects this request by saying it is difficult to wait. He simply refuses to sit covering fire and watch his people being hurt and oppressed time later on time. He claims that the white moderate is the group that is more devoted to severalise blacks because they care more about order than justice. These moderates are complacent and would rather pull in no tension instead of the presence of jus... ...nk that if King were vivacious today to witness the recent events at the World Trade Center, he would again preach nonviolence for the American people. He would be sadden ed to see our government retaliate with violence. I dont view the United States would be adequate to follow his four steps of nonviolence. We have achieved the first two steps of recognizing the direct injustice against us, and we have attempted to negotiate with the leaders of the Taliban. I think our country would not be able to reach the step of self-purification. As the ultimate power in the world, the U.S. would not be able to simply accept blows against our government, freedom and liberty. I think it would be big(p) to solve this terrorism today with nonviolence tactics only. I think this because it is an international, political, and economical issue rather than a social injustice against a minority.