Racial Discrimination In Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter From Birmingham Jail
In the past year there have been multiple cases of “racial discrimination” against the police, these cases have been associated with police brutality. Segregation and racial prejudice was a large part of the history in the United States but not in a positive way. Many Americans are not proud of the way the African Americans were treated by their fellow citizens. Prejudice and racial discrimination are prevalent today in both the same and different ways as when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought against it. In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” he uses periodic sentences, syntax, diction, and allusions to write about his beliefs about the immense struggles African Americans experienced to gain their rights, how he
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King uses syntax when he scribes his thoughts about just and unjust laws. In particular, he describes unjust laws as codes that are out of harmony with the moral law and not rooted with eternal law, and a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey, but does not make it binding on itself. Since he describes a just law as a man-made code that squares with the moral law or law of God and uplifts human personality, Dr. King is saying that a just law is much more preferable to our society (742). After telling about the difference between just and unjust laws, he explains to his audience, in his opinion, a way to break unjust laws. One way to do this is to bring awareness to the law and how it is unjust without breaking the law. Also a group of people can stand up against the unjust law by talking before a group of legislators or some form of court. He also tells us that some laws may be both just and unjust. He writes “Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application” (743). Laws like no parading without a permit, seems like a just law on the outside, but also tends to include peaceful protesting and boycotting. Another example is the inability to vote or segregation of schools and public places. Although African Americans have been affected by multiple unjust and just laws, they continued on their journey to gain equal rights in
King uses syntax when he scribes his thoughts about just and unjust laws. In particular, he describes unjust laws as codes that are out of harmony with the moral law and not rooted with eternal law, and a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey, but does not make it binding on itself. Since he describes a just law as a man-made code that squares with the moral law or law of God and uplifts human personality, Dr. King is saying that a just law is much more preferable to our society (742). After telling about the difference between just and unjust laws, he explains to his audience, in his opinion, a way to break unjust laws. One way to do this is to bring awareness to the law and how it is unjust without breaking the law. Also a group of people can stand up against the unjust law by talking before a group of legislators or some form of court. He also tells us that some laws may be both just and unjust. He writes “Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application” (743). Laws like no parading without a permit, seems like a just law on the outside, but also tends to include peaceful protesting and boycotting. Another example is the inability to vote or segregation of schools and public places. Although African Americans have been affected by multiple unjust and just laws, they continued on their journey to gain equal rights in