Week 5: Blog Reflection
So far, I feel that a common theme among the readings has surfaced in the class, from civil rights, to racial injustice, to how far (or even how little...) we have come as a society in the fight for rights for minorities. From Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail, to The Black Power Mixtape , these themes are explored more in depth. We take a closer look at the civil rights movement of MLK's time in the Letter From Birmingham Jail, where MLK uses his platform to convince eight white religious leaders as to why protesting is fair and needed, and why people of color are deserving of just the same civil rights as those who are white. He persuades his reader through uses of pathos, showing them how laws were unjust and immoral, how they were used to keep the people of color down. He questions American democracy, asking how democracy can even work in such a place where an entire race of people is constantly downtrodden, kept even from the basic right to vote in a cou